Intercultural competences development Desarrollo de competencias interculturales A proposal for bilingual training in rural contexts

Abstract

The article base in the analysis of intercultural competences as a proposal for training in foreign languages ​​in rural fields, using the local context as an element that lands and energizes bilingual education and adequately approaches the compression of new cultural concepts. The methodology used was the ethnographic study case, which implied a field work characterized by observation and continued participation in educational institutions of the municipality of Villagómez-Cundinamarca Colombia; The categories of analysis were selected as the concept of rurality, interculturality, culture and bilingualism. The data analysis was carried out in a descriptive way, which seeks, on one hand, to provide an overview about rural education in foreign languages ​​and the problem of cultural domination from the perspective of the participants. And on the other the resignification of the concept of the rural in the educational, focused more on the anthropological dimension, which is inclusive and from the difference; that not only is able to understand the complexity of educating in rural areas, but that it transcends epistemic fields and is not limited to the superficial recognition of demographic space as a geographical, regional framework, where different cosmogonies and knowledge converge. This study aims to generate in the teachers and students the consolidation of positive attitudes aimed at assessing their cultural system while acquiring a foreign language. Our commitment is to demonstrate that the education of a foreign language can be thought of from a more equitable posture which generates a deep reflection on the way these linguistic processes are carried out in the rural space, an education in which the foreign language serves as an element through which local culture can be reinforced and not as an element that disintegrates and establishes differences between cultural systems.