Conocimientos, barreras y oportunidades para participar en la Educación Superior que perciben mujeres estudiantes afrocolombianas, directivos y docentes de la Institución Universitaria Antonio José Camacho de Santiago de Cali
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Castañeda Gamboa, Gloria Irina | 2021
This research aimed to describe the knowledge, barriers, and opportunities to participate in
Higher Education perceived by Afro-Colombian women students at the Antonio José Camacho
University Institution in the city of Cali. It is an exploratory and descriptive study framed in the
phenomenological paradigm and the qualitative approach by applying techniques of Focus Groups
(students) and semi-structured interviews (Directors and teachers). As a result of the study, it was
found that there is a lack of more significant appropriation and control over the conception of
participation, participatory action, and the legal framework that guarantees the students' rights.
Regarding the barriers to participating perceived by the students, insecurity and /or perception of
rejection or fear of expressing ideas were found predominantly. The historical weight, cultural and
geo-ethnic discrimination, and the absence of exclusively Afro-Colombian institutional spaces
limit and place them within a passive and provoked rather than spontaneous and authentic
participation. The opportunities perceived by the students are the sense of commitment to
themselves and their educational process, interest in the formation of Afro-Colombian
communities, the impact of academic processes on their transformation. Some of these barriers
and opportunities converge with those perceived by teachers and administrators. The study
concludes that despite participation is limited by barriers that continue linked to the historical
burden of racist, patriarchal and hegemonic discourses and attitudes that reaffirm a triple
vulnerability (women, Afro, and poor); opportunities emerge and with them an invitation to
dialogue and to generate changes in the strategies for the Afro-Colombian worldview.
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