Abstract

MENDOZA ZUANY, Rosa Guadalupe; SANDOVAL RIVERA, Juan Carlos  and  MARTINEZ BAUTIST, Paula. Situated learning through local stories: positioning socio-ecological concerns, knowledge and practices in school. Nóesis, Rev. cienc. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.31, n.61, pp.114-133.  Epub Aug 22, 2022. ISSN 2395-8669.  https://doi.org/10.20983/noesis.2022.1.5.

The article analyzes the importance of the local stories, which contain concerns, knowledge and practices to look after the socio-ecological environment, to trigger situated and pertinent teaching and learning processes in primary education in rural and indigenous contexts in Veracruz, Mexico. In particular, it focuses on the stories about care in the framework of a deep socio-ecological crisis in two Nahua communities of the Huasteca region. Interview-conversations were carried out with community actors in the two communities in which 32 stories emerged. The analysis allowed the identification of socio-ecological concerns of the community, characteristics of the stories that show their potential in the learning processes, as well as types of knowledge and practices that are rarely considered in the classroom, which are capable of being linked to curricular content, in order to contribute to reflection and action on the socio-ecological crisis of the communities.

Keywords : learning; story telling; environment; socio-cultural environment; rural school.

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