Comunalizar la escuela bilingüe desde los suelos que respiramos: Voces y prácticas comunitarias de maestras y maestros chinantecos en Oaxaca

Abstract

The paper presents an experience on Community Education in rural indigenous communities in the Chinantla region in the State of Oaxaca. Chinantec indigenous teachers have given themselves the historical task of building, through courses, workshops and collective work meetings, full of analysis and reflection, a path of teacher self-training through their community being, knowing and doing inspired from the movement state pedagogical system and their own communal socio-cultural environments. The symmetrical interaction between the school and the communities has been strengthened through the years of work. The inclusion in decision-making with parents, authorities and local personalities and guests has allowed them to build decolonizing community pedagogical measures for educational life (preschool, primary and community secondary). These forms and school practices also consider their own issues that allow processes to demand community dynamics and structures, such as knowledge and rural community knowledge that are generated, for example, in the cargo system, community tequios, work for subsistence, community health and other issues drawn from these very own situations. In different words, they highlight communal learning from what is observed, heard and done in community. Communality is pointed out as a practical-explanatory horizon that helps to articulate communal knowledge and knowledge in school practices, then other educational experiences from a conception of collective learning -by understanding-. “Communalize education”, among others, is a principle of the pedagogical movement that guides the educational work among the Chinantecos as community subjects.