Learning from Colombia´s Indigenous Communities in multicontextualized spaces, ancestral knowledge for environmental community education

Abstract

Colombia is known worldwide for its ecological and cultural biodiversity. The world and Colombia are facing an environmental and social crisis. For which Colombia’s indigenous populations have been remarkable examples for their good environmental relationship with the earth and for their community living practices. There are a variety of scientific explanations to the environmental crisis, including the deep ecology authors. Despite all of the different research lenses to environmental degradation, scientists agree that the world is living the effects of human caused environmental degradation. In order to find possible solutions for the schooling system in Colombia, this research looks into the indigenous ancestral knowledge (IAK) of the indigenous communities from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta (ICFSNSM), Iku, Wiwa and Kogui, that could be implemented in a non-indigenous Colombian school, to teach environmental and community living, based on some of the insights of ancestral knowledge. The research used a descriptive qualitative methodology with elements of funded theory. The results presented, identified and described the IAK from the indigenous communities from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta and how IAK could be implemented in the pedagogy of a Colombian school.