Chair of Afro-Colombian Studies: a tool for the recognition of cultural diversity

Abstract

This work of literature survey to describe the role of the Lecture on Afro Colombian Studies (LAS) on the civic formation of students, to fulfill our inquiry we analyzed twenty-seven authors in total among them international, national, and local origin researchers were taken into account, so that we could build links across their theories with new approaches. Our methodology defined three key broad branches of the LAS, its role as pedagogical process through which the Afro Colombian people can revendicate their history, Cultural Diversity and Education: Its role as tool to not only acknowledge one as Afro Colombian but also to understand the value of living in harmony and in community, Educational Environment where we define the interaction between members of the educational community and pedagogical environments. All of these presented in three stages, the first that links the objectives to the previous literature, the second where we gather all the novel literature from the authors, and lastly the third where we analyze the contributions to yield some final comments. In our conclusions we expose the impact of the LAS as way to encourage the acknowledging of others and promoting healthy coexisting in schools that helps the goal of  building humanity from the understanding of the Afro Descendants legacy from critical point of view, applying didactical and pedagogical strategies of self-education.