Promoting nicaraguan traditional games. A sociocultural animation experience

Abstract

This article systematizes the practice of traditional Nicaraguan games carried out through an experience of socio-cultural animation with children, adolescents and adults in the Otoniel Arauz neighborhood of the municipality of Matagalpa. The study arose in the face of the obvious crisis faced by traditional games with the emergence of the new technological devices that modernity has brought with them, which have captured current generations preventing them from knowing and practicing these games. In this sense, the team of researchers considered promoting traditional Nicaraguan games and at the same time developing a culture of peace and reconciliation through such games, so, with a participatory action research approach, a diagnosis was made on the practice of the games. Then, an action plan was developed and executed and finally, the impact of the sociocultural intervention was evaluated. This research process provides a set of significant results that suggest that traditional Nicaraguan games represent an enormous cultural value, and that these are conducive to developing a set of cultural, social and collective values in societies.