Introduction

It is time to pull the thick, heavy rope of imposition and unpin the pier from silences.

The ship's staircases are waiting for you to immerse yourself in the adventure of writing.

The sails have been raised and the wind blows in our favor. Our destination is learning and

our arrival time is uncertain. Get ready to enjoy the wonderful landscape offers on the bow

of our boat; the infinity of imagination. The sea is making waves and the captain is a

reckless driver. Go and store your belongings and dress up to the nines that it is time to

watch the sunset of creation. It's time to feel the breeze of words and smell that exclusive

fragrance of freedom.

Throughout a journey around the Building Bridges: Cuentos y Puentes project, two

groups of children participants got themselves involved in an adventure about a cultural

exchange. By the means of words, they explore other’s realities and integrate it through a

space that allows the imagination works and reach the other child across the space. The

child participant I worked with found himself discovering the magic that is behind that

what I decided to name the bottle’s messages. Once he opened the bottle, he began to

wonder about who was behind those words that were send across the oceans. Within this

process the child and you, dear visitor, will come up with the surprise that there are words

that are being stained beyond where we believe the canvas for creation ends.

In the following pages of this research paper, I invite you to come aboard to this

Building Bridges’ trip and peek around the importance of get the social justice pedagogy,

the transformative sense, and the creative writing processes into schooling. The above is

strongly connected with the purpose of the aforementioned project. It is to encourage

children to use the language not only as a communication tool but also as a possibility of
create and recreate realities. Along this document, I pretend that the reader can recognize

how the words can acts as a trigger to able the child’s voice be heard.

During the course of this wonderful journey, you will find yourself in front of short

sections such as the contextualization, where the generalities of the Building Bridges:

Cuentos y Puentes project are highlighted in order to have an overall perspective about

what the community intervention is intended in. Then, the guiding principles take place

where the justification and theoretical journey are encapsulated and integrated in a single

piece. Therefore, there is a complete activities description within the procedure schedule in

what was denominated “the pedagogical proposal”. Before getting into the analysis of the

information, the two instruments that allow the gathering of the information are mentioned

and its connection with this short project is explained. By the end of this paper the data

analysis take its place. It encloses the mainly observations in regards to the whole process

my child participant went through and further discussions around the two constructs I

propose to base this intervention on; Anti- Oppressive practices and the theory of the

Transformative Language Arts.