Cinema; didactic strategy facing the realities of Catatumbo

Abstract

The following article is the result of the research-space "Cine Club Bari" where academic reflections were generated about the post-conflict, its relationship with the territory and rural societies, as a development of the line of research Environmental management and its sublimation Rural societies, Territory and Post-conflict of the Gi @ ds research group of the Francisco de Paula Santander Ocaña University. It is framed in qualitative research, with a social critical approach and as a focus group analysis method, in the field of pedagogy, using cinema as a didactic strategy. 9 films were screened during the first half of 2017 organized in three cycles: War and Rural Societies, Disputed Booty Territory, and Post-conflict. As results, it was found that the students debated around the following categories: Displacement, fragmentation of family groups, childhood, social fabric, rurality, natural resources, resilience and the exercise of politics in local contexts, peace and reconciliation. By way of conclusion, the cinema opened spaces for dialogue of knowledge and the construction of knowledge from the community around the dynamics of Catatumbo, which generated self-reflection processes in the students regarding their role as professionals in society and their region .

Keywords

• armed conflict
• rural societies
• territory
• post-conflict