Social dimensions indigenous community Ecuador Peguche-Otavalo

In: Sociology international journal, Band 2, Heft 6, S. 662-671

Abstract

This research responds to the need to systematize and give continuity to the social processes developed by the researcher for more than a decade to promote sustainable social and community development and the Peguche, Canton Otavalo, Ecuador community. The purpose was to build social dimensions, through the historical reconstruction of the indigenous community experience based on the practice of knowledge. The work is based on the qualitative paradigm with ethnographic approach of interpretative. It was structured Immersion in the context investigator to uncover social practices of the community and create educational dimensions for community sustainable social development. Obtaining information was performed by participant observation and interviews with key informants in depth community. The findings helped build the following dimensions: cognitive recognition and its relationship with nature; establishment of inter-agency partnerships; consolidation of learning and continuity of learning; school community integration in teaching community tourism and the incorporation of ancestral knowledge in the development of tourism.