The cultural knowledge in the upbringing of children

Abstract

Knowledge and beliefs about child rearingove r time has been considered as an exclusive task of the mother. There are fundamental premises that have been handed down from grandmothers to mothers and young mothers.
However, with the globalization of knowledge and acculturation that has been produced by the mobility of peoples, these premises have been changed and even forgotten. The purpose of this article is to detect and evaluate the practices and raising experiences of grandmothers and mothers of the communities of Cotopaxi from the point of view of the rescue of knowledge, through the description of activities of their own environment. The methodology has a historical heuristic approach, characterized by the application of a semistructured questionnaire to investigate and transcribe the experiences lived by the grandmothers, mothers and young mothers, the knowledge and practices that they performed in the stage of rearing their newborn children and the care of the mother after childbirth.
 
From the perspective of respect for ancestral knowledge, it is important to preserve these beliefs and practices of ancestral culture in order to maintain the intercultural identity and diversity of the Ecuadorian people, which will undoubtedly remain throughout history