Imagining an environment for life: children and young people territorialize sustainability
Abstract
The work carried out in this article is an exercise that aims to investigate the imaginaries of a group of children and adolescents in order to build with them a notion of sustainability for their territory. The research is carried out within the framework of a socio-community initiative that promotes reading-writing processes in an incompletely developed settlement called Colonia Nariñense. To achieve the objective, three research techniques are applied that complement each other and it is also decided to build a theoretical framework anchored in social constructivism, a critical notion of childhood and the place it occupies in sustainable development. Finally, the research concludes that for these children, sustainability is understood as linked to the transformation of social dynamics and the space they inhabit, as well as a non-fragmented vision between the urban-rural and the human-natural.
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