A valorização educativa dos saberes das mulheres maias para pequenas atividades econômicas sustentáveis,

This article illustrates an experience of Adult Education involving a group of women from an indigenous community Maya of Guatemala, and aims to demonstrate how local development action must be accompanied by educational interventions involving also and above all the weakest group of the population. An education that want to focus on the processes of inclusion must necessarily star from what people are and can do, to proceed then with the definition of existential journeys e professionals able to fully develop the capacity of participants. In the case presented here, the educational activity follows a logic of formative inclusion of a group of Mayan women, oriented to the creation of communication node, cognitive, emotional and motivational grids, from exploitation of their knowledge and skills, moves to the constructions of new useful knowledge to find innovative solutions to improve their living conditions. The Mayan women in Guatemala, in fact, suffer forms of exclusion perpetrated by one of the racist and sexist companies, product of the changes arising from globalization processes, the origin of the fractures on the social relations of community, loss and the lack of traditional knowledge.