The school as a space for linguistic cultural reproduction

Abstract

This research includes the wankas, which are a set of songs dedicated to the planting of maize as an ancestral practice in a peasant community. For this reason, the objective has been to collect and understand local knowledge in agriculture (corn planting) as a linguistic identity based on the orality and writing of the wankas of southern Quechua at the Guillermo Viladegut Educational Institution of the San Sebastián de Curasco Peasant Community (Apurimac, Perú). To achieve this purpose, a qualitative approach has been followed, through a case study design and the semi-structured interview that was applied by the students of the VII cycle to six wise women from the community has been used. One of the results obtained is that the school is the space for the reproduction of local knowledge in the mother tongue (Southern Quechua), strengthening the oral and written linguistic identity of the Wankas in the students.