Roads to Abya Yala: Didactic Proposal for the approach of Decolonizing Knowledge in the Social Sciences

Abstract

The objective of this research is to formulate a didactic proposal called “Paths to Abya Yala: traveling to the dialogue of knowledge in the classroom” for the approach of decolonizing knowledge in the social sciences of the sixth grade to the Bibliographic Informational Mapping strategy (MBI) that I threw into the process investigative three conceptual approaches to guide research: the knowledge decolonizing, interculturality and the dialogue of knowledge. A selection was made of a corpus of 41 documents, the construction of bibliographic records that allow the approach of decolonizing knowledge in the classroom and finally the delivery of sequences didactics that guide the work to be done in the classroom, associated with the curricular axes of the Social Sciences area and an aside with the suggested evaluation criteria.

We are interested in the way of knowing and knowing about the beings that inhabit the universe, the ancestral knowledge that establishes another type of relationship with the land, animals and life cycles, systemic relationships that allow changes in the way of feeling-thinking, and that can contribute to changes in the forms of extractivist life to which they have been territories dragged by the “development” proposed by the West, points to the construction of intercultural processes through which subjects make visible and questions the coloniality of knowledge, a resignification that includes the relationship horizontal between western epistemic knowledge and ancestral epistemic knowledge, that the first does not qualify as superior and the second as inferior.