Abstract

RENTERIA-JIMENEZ, Carlos  and  CALLE, Claudia Vêlez De La. Black Communities and Ancestral Environmental Knowledge: An Analysis from the Principles of Popular Environmental Education to Re(Think) Society-Nature Relationships. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2021, n.81, pp.311-336.  Epub Apr 03, 2022. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num81-10715.

This article presents the results of the research Black communities of the Colombian Pacific (Chocó) and ancestral environmental knowledge: A critical intercultural study for an education and environmental culture of its own, which analyzes the way in which the inhabitants of the Greater Community Council of Alto San Juan-Asocasan (Chocó, Colombia) have historically and culturally built their relationships with nature, a set of symbolic and cultural representations, knowledge, practices, and values that guide their direct links with their ancestral territory, represented from ontological, epistemological and ethical categories that, when mediated by the teaching-learning processes (pedagogical category) reveal the coexistence of cultural manifestations, attitudes and behaviors, and other interactions with nature, expressed through their ancestral environmental knowledge. Methodologically, the research followed a qualitative approach, with ethnographic orientation whose empirical evidence arose from the analysis of narrative fragments obtained from interviews by way of conversational interaction addressed towards the expressions and worldviews that explain their special and close relationship with their environment. The territory for the inhabitants of Asocasan represents a complex process of relations of existence, (re)existence, resistance, and permanent adaptation to the environment, to the tropical rainforest, and it is precisely thanks to these relationships that they develop their ancestral environmental knowledge. Based on these evidences, certain guidelines and representations that guide the dimensionality of these knowledge in their ontological, ethical, political, pedagogical and epistemological aspects could be noted.

Keywords : Worldviews; Environmental Education; Local Knowledge; Ethnic Groups; Sustainability.

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