Participación y responsabilidad democrática: una vivencia desde la escuela

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to make a pedagogical intervention that allows to identify the civic competences that need to strengthen the students of the Colegio Agustiniano Norte in order to encourage their participation and democratic responsibility. For this, the project includes the development of several stages that begin with the search for information and development of a key category called Participation and Democratic Responsibility, based in turn on the basic standards of civic competencies of the Ministry of National Education, and then, the realization of several data collection instruments, their implementation and a final analysis. Through a qualitative research and from some phases of intervention: survey of the teachers of the school, an observation and structured interview to the students, the notions and the use that they give them to citizen competencies were known and analized, as well as the different positions they have in relation to the problematic situations of democracy within their school and national contexts. Finally, it was found that students must strengthen all citizenship competencies in the framework of democratic participation and responsibility, there is evidence of a little appropriation of them both in the classroom and outside of it. However, it is the civic competences referring to the participation of political instances within the school and the community, the critical and argued analysis of corruption and the knowledge of the constituent elements of the social State of right