VIII. REDES DE APOYO EN FAMILIAS RURALES A PARTIR DE LAS PRÁCTICAS COLABORATIVAS EL CASO DE UNE, CUNDINAMARCA

Abstract

The study named “Support Network in rural families from Collaborative Practices” aims to find out how a group of rural families from a town, Une, Cundinamarca manages their support network to generate a mutual care social tissue by means of collaborative practices. On doing this, support network is studied to overcome the paternalistic welfare perspective and the pyramid metaphor that works from top to bottom and from the periphery to the core.The interest to study rural families emerges from identifying a knowledge gap about this type of families in Colombia, specially taking into account the big changes due to globalization and the peace process. In this way, the main objective of this study is on making the particularities of a group of Une rural families visible instead of making generalizations. In this way, this study responds to the interest of“Instituto de Estudios en familia” at Fundacion Universitaria Monserrate, which looks for the comprehension of family diversity.The epistemic ground that supports the understanding of support network within rural framework is social constructionism, in which knowledge is built in community relationships and microsocial processes. In terms of methodology, collaborative practices guide the participatory and horizontal work with rural families, the catechist team, the priest and the teacher form a rural school toward dialogues and possibilities of action. Results show how collaborative practices stimulate appreciative conversations with the nodes of the network and the rural families at Une, to strengthen the social communal mutual care tissue.