PROJECT BASED LEARNING: AN EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVE FOR THE WOARANI IN THE ECUADORIAN AMAZON REGION

Abstract

With a view to support the education of the students of the Ika School, a team of pedagogues, psychologists and anthropologists of the PUCE strove to contextualize the educational task, through the didactic strategy called ProjectBased Learning (PBL). The educational center in question serves children of a vulnerable sector, of the Waorani ethnic group, which is located in Guiyero, within the Yasuní National Park, in the Ecuadorian Amazon region. The PBL methodology proposed in this article is aligned with the public policies of Bilingual Intercultural Education and its goals are to integrate: the culture of the population, the use of Spanish as a second language, the different learning styles, the strengthening of critical thinking and creativity, the development of skills with performance criteria of the GPE (General Primary Education) and GSU (General Secondary Education) of the Ecuadorian National Curriculum in addition to the skills detected as weak in previous studies. According to the PBL strategy, four phases related to the aforementioned objectives are proposed. However, it is important to mention that it is a proposal, which has not been implemented and has not been evaluated, therefore, the social impact of the proposal can not yet be established