ANCESTRAL SEEDS OF FREEDOM: CIMARRONA WISDOM AND PEDAGOGY CIMARRONA OF THE AFROCHOTEÑIDAD

Abstract

In Ecuador, a population of African origin was kidnapped and introduced by the Society of Jesus to be enslaved at the end of the 16th century; the coloniality/modernity of power, in order to guarantee the slave/landholder exploitation of African people and their descendants, denied them not only their human existence but also their spirituality and their millenary wisdom. Thanks to collective memory and imagination, the Afrochoteñidad has managed to transmit or sow in its (newly) nascent, from mouth to ear, from ear to mouth, the knowledge of life, the Cimarron seed of freedom, opposed to the project political, civilizational, colonial/modern Eurocriollo. In this context, we will talk centrally about pedagogical practices with culture relevance articulated to the official curricular subjects' official curriculum implemented by professor Salomón Chalá Lara at the José Maria Urbina school in the community of Chota.