Abstract

PAREDES PALACIOS, Alexandra. Memory and oral tradition in the formation of knowledge. A look at the development of cultural identity. ReHuSo [online]. 2019, vol.4, n.2, pp.28-40.  Epub Aug 02, 2019. ISSN 2550-6587.  https://doi.org/10.33936/rehuso.v4i2.2129.

The present study presents and analyses how memory and oral tradition promote the formation of knowledge and how they contribute to the development of cultural identity. In this document the need to understand this type of identity as a key element of the educational processes to contribute to the construction of coexistence in multicultural societies is raised, that takes back the ancestral beliefs in the province of Manabí and therefore, a training and education for the citizenry that strengthens the identity, especially in the students who study the Baccalaureate in the June 5 Educational Unit of the city of Manta, province of Manabí, Ecuador. For this purpose, culture is assumed as the whole of all forms and expressions of a given society and as such includes customs, practices, codes, norms and rules of the way of being, dress, religion, rituals, norms of behavior and belief systems. Based on these criteria, the fundamental contribution of culture in the formation of human beings is valued.

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