Getting ahead: the path followed to overcome the situation.

1. Teaching social justice in the EFL classroom
within the Colombian post conflict
María del Pilar Fernández Pedraza M.A.
Leidy Yisel Gómez-Vásquez M.A.
3. GETTING AHEAD STATION

2. Understanding the context:
SOMETHING ABOUT SAN CARLOS, ANTIOQUIA
San Carlos is a municipality part of the sub-region of Eastern
Antioquia well-known as the hydro-electrical capital of Colombia due
to its strategic location. San Carlos is a town with great variety of
natural resources: beautiful woods, natural reserves, rivers and
waterfalls, as well as fertile lands that allow the community to
produce coffee, sugarcane, potato and corn.
Unfortunately, due to its strategic location,
San Carlos became the main objective of
different armed groups that wanted to have
control over the territory to impose their
ideologies and benefit their own interests
in detriment of the civil society.

3. Introducing the events:
Choose one of the following sources (an article, an
audio or a video) and take notes on the information
provided.

4. Article:
“En San Carlos ya no manda el miedo”
El Espectador.
bit.do/rebuildingprojects

5. Audio:
“Centro de Memoria Histórica”
bit.do/returnings

6. Video:
“San Carlos - Memories of war exodus”
(from 16:25 to 23:27)
bit.do/exodusinsancarlos

7. Analyzing the events:
Complete the graphic organizer using the information
provided in the source you selected and be ready to
socialize it in your group.

8. Analyzing the events:
As a group: analyze the three sources and discuss the
following questions:
1. Do these sources tell different stories? If so, how
do the stories differ?
2. How did your understanding of the “return to San
Carlos” change as you had access to more sources?

9. Reporting the events:
Create a poster where you report the return of this
community to their territory after all those years of
violence, as well as the projects developed to repair and
rebuild.
Share your product in the Padlet:
bit.do/socialfabricL