afro colombian culture

In Colombia We've several problems about afro racism, some of those are illiteracy, Afro kids mortality. But we can't say that everything is bad, for example there are  communities that works intensively every day against racial segregation, the research activity about racism and repair has taken strong in the last years, the observatory of racial discrimination, is a space of researching and discussion, it is articulated with several communities in Colombia.

We can change those indicators about racism, and thats why i will talk a little about how we can improve racism indicators by influencing the education.

I think that the only way to change this racism environment in Colombia is by modifying the metodology of education. Inside the School classrooms the teachers define the racism, and the students know that there is racism in Colombia. In the university we have an academic perspective about racism, but the movements are limited by the system. But there are counted researching groups that are supported by the goverment. As a first step i mentioned a change in the metodology, but we can't obtain a change in the metodology without a change in the theory. In this sense, if the teachers change the traditional way of lecturing to a proactive, dynamic and creative perspective, the young people can identify the most important problems about racism in the society. The Canadian Journal of Education made a research about the Anti-Racism education, you can read it in this link: http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE19-4/CJE19-4-08Mansfield.pdf .

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