Situated Learnings and Critical Interculturality: A Scenario for the Formation of Leaders in Ethnic Contexts in Colombia Supported by Service-Learning

Abstract

The training of leaders in Colombian ethnic communities has been a constant social demand, which has not had the necessary response from the official educational authorities. Alternative pedagogies, always in the vanguard of changes and in counter-hegemonic positions, have become the proper scenario to cover these deficits of the most vulnerable groups outside the radar of the institutional system. In this work, aware of this requirement, we have wanted to present a proposal for a leadership training program, using the concept of situated learning and the theories of critical interculturality as supporting pillars of the proposal. And all this, under the methodological approach of service-learning (ApS), which aims to culminate the learning by performing a service to the community from the recognition of diversity, identifying social inequalities and power issues, for the benefit of social transformation. The conclusion of the work recognizes the importance for these communities of training leaders with critical and emancipatory thinking in contexts of social inequality.