Community experience and practice: valorization of Kichwa in students of the seventh year of Basic Education

Abstract

The present investigation points out how the community and family practice promotes the appreciation of the Kichwa language in the students of the Sixth and Seventh year of Basic Education of the Angel Maria Ávila Quizhpe Community Educational Center of the Gurudel community of the Saraguro canton, province of Loja, to answer the research question, a methodology model with a mixed approach is designed, combining research techniques, methods and quantitative and qualitative research language. The results indicate that the community, despite playing an essential role in the practice of values and respect for identity, is not visualized in their daily lives, that is, fathers and mothers do not practice Kichwa with their children at home. In conclusion, it can be affirmed that with the methods and techniques applied, it is detected that most of the families consider Spanish as their mother tongue, despite showing their interest in recovering the official language and understanding the true meaning of Kichwa as an inheritance left by the ancestors, who fought so that the indigenous community does not continue to be marginalized or mistreated.