Re-existencias en la ciudad: niñas y niños indígenas en las Casas de Pensamiento Intercultural de Bogotá.

Abstract

This research article compiles part of the findings of a doctoral thesis on the role of the Casas de Pensamiento Intercultural (cPi) in Bogotá in the education of indigenous children living in the city. From the postulates of collaborative research, a comprehensive approach of the daily life of the cPis is made, identifying that, from their ways of working, they constitute scenarios of re-existence for indigenous peoples, where educational proposals based on cultural practices and own knowledge are agenized. Therefore, the presence of music, handicrafts, language, the relationship with the territory of origin, spirituality, and traditional medicine become relevant as strategies of re-existence, symbolic bets, and practices that allow agitating possibilities of being an indigenous child, as well as to weave identity and social links in the city.