El Modelo Educativo Salesiano. Repercusiones En la Cultura Shuar 1893-1970

Socio-historical research that seeks to understand and explain the role of the Salesians in the Ecuadorian Oriente between 1893 and 1970, with particular emphasis on the foundation and development of the Don Bosco Seville Boarding School established in 1943, and its repercussions on contemporary Shuar culture. The interest has been focused on knowing and reflecting on the repercussions that this educational model had on the communities it was intended to serve and on which it exerted a notable influence, both in their cultural patterns and identity of origin. Throughout their relationship with the missionaries, the Shuar were able to make their demands implicitly or explicitly. The missionaries had to negotiate these demands, which became stronger when the Federation of Shuar Centers was created (1964) and the Shuar decided to take a path of independent development. This was also evidenced by the emergence of the first Shuar leaders and their leadership. Imitating the innate capacity of the missionaries to articulate broad social and economic sectors in pursuit of their objectives, they learned to move in different scenarios to seek benefits for their organization and their people.