Martha Belalcazar
Teacher of the National Normal of Manizales. Technical Child Psychology and Preschool Education. Bachelor of Social Sciences. Specialist in teaching Social Sciences – History of Colombia. Diploma in ethno-education, in Human Rights, Leadership and Political Training, Public Policies and Affirmative Actions for Afro-Colombians, Politics - feminisms and Non-violence, historiography and historical research methodology, assistant to the Interdisciplinary course in Human Rights "Building the route towards recognition and appreciation of diversities in the light of Human Rights”
She has experience in educational-pedagogical, geographical and historical research; She, in a special way, researches and teaches with the Ethnoeducation and the Chair of Afro-Colombian Studies.
For three years, I coordinate the research group: Learning with the Bicentennial and Ondas Cauca program of the University of Cauca and the University of Valle; from 2003 – 2013, in the same way he coordinates the Chair of Afro-Colombian Studies at the “Ana Silena Arroyave Roa” Educational Institution in Puerto Tejada, in order to ensure that students reaffirm their identity through knowledge, recognition, exaltation and dissemination of the contributions historical-cultural, ancestral, current of Africans and Afro-descendants to the construction of our Colombian nation and brotherhood with African-Americans.
She serves for forty-three years in official educational institutions at all levels; She is also an assistant and teacher at the Universidad del Valle, Cali and Zarzal, and a teacher at the Universidad Libre Seccional Cali. As an Ethno-educator, from the Chair of Afro-Colombian Studies with the National Network of Afro-Colombian Women "kambirí" in agreement with the European Union in Cali, she is part of the interdisciplinary group of the ethno-educational project of the Ministry of Education in agreement with the Community Council "Monteoscuro", for Afro-descendant communities in the department of Cauca.
She has theoretical depth in topics related to ethnic education, Chair of Afro-Colombian Studies, culture, multiculturalism, ethnic-racial discrimination, interculturality, identity; Human rights; history - geography of Colombia.
Her strengths are teamwork, ease of relationship, continuous learning and research, ability to serve the communities.