Propuesta universitaria de educación en colombia: “Profesional de la vida comunitaria y la paz”

Abstract

Introduction: Traditional community education has ignored popular sectors because they consider them ignorant and blames them for their poor health. Their modes of social organization that allow them to solve daily problems with their own knowledge and practices have been little explored. Objectives: To propose an educational project for life and peace from a transformative praxis. Methods: Hermeneutic critical qualitative research, based on Participatory Action Research and Popular Education. An annual solidarity extension project carried out for almost 20 years by professors and students of a Colombian University with native, urban and rural communities is systematized. 12 life stories were made and 25 students were accompanied in their degree work on topics related to the proposal. Results: The reflections of life stories and the accompaniment of the University are presented to marginalized communities that crystallize in the Community Life and Peace Professional Program. Conclusions: Public health must approach popular sectors from a particular political sense horizon and recognize popular knowledge as a way of building the world with which it is necessary to broaden their approach and work perspective.