La etnoliteratura como apuesta pedagógica decolonial para fortalecer la identidad cultural de los estudiantes de quinto grado del Centro Educativo Chaguaipe, del Resguardo Indígena Ipiales Ethnoliterature as a decolonial pedagogical commitment to strengthen the cultural identity of fifth grade students of the Chaguaipe Educational Center, of the Ipiales Indigenous Reservation

Abstract

Ethnoliterature gathers the ethnic narratives of traditions, facts and cultural events that allow the transmission of the indigenous worldview and the strengthening of identity. In this sense the article develops the results of the research "Ethnoliteracy as a decolonial pedagogical bet for the strengthening of the cultural identity of the fifth-grade students of the Chaguaipe Educational Center". For this purpose, the qualitative research approach was used, from ethnography, in order to unveil the key practices that preserve the identity. The results show that the survival of culture is generated from: ethnoliterary practices in school and family, memories of knowledge and customs, all of them through oral tradition as decolonial pedagogical actions. This led to the conclusion that pedagogical actions based on ethnic narratives allow the indigenous worldview to re-exist in collective memories and strengthen the cultural identity in the new generations.