Interculturality and gender: feeling the educational gaps of women through autoethnography in the Cuenca canton

This project studies the formal and non-formal educational trajectories of women in intercultural contexts in Cuenca, based on autoethnography as a methodological tool. Autoethnography allows women to narrate their memories, experiences and knowledge, making visible how they have lived and faced educational processes crossed by gaps, resistance and learning. From this approach, writing workshops and educational transects are developed that open spaces for reflection, self-expression and collective construction of meaning, aimed at empowering women and strengthening the community fabric. The project contributes to decolonizing knowledge from an intercultural and gender perspective. The intercultural perspective brings into dialogue knowledge, memories and practices of women from diverse ethnic contexts, recognizing the cultural plurality of their educational trajectories and questioning the homogenization imposed by traditional school systems. Regarding gender, the project
recognizes that women face structural violence that crosses their bodies and territories:
unequal access to education, work, land and to have their voice and presence heard in the social space. Applied feminist pedagogy places the focus on dimensions made invisible by colonized and patriarchal educational systems: language, corporality, feelings and daily life, restoring their symbolic, political and transformative value. The productions derived from this process include texts and narratives located within the framework of literacies, understood as practices of self-expression, memory and resistance, useful for understanding the uses of language in societies on the move.

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