Las ciencias sociales y su debate: la escuela y el problema de la ciudadanía en Colombia 1994 - 2020

Abstract

Examining the concept of citizenship as enshrined in both the 1991 Political Constitution of Colombia and the curricular guidelines for Social Sciences, established after the enactment of the 1994 General Education Law, allows us to identify similarities, differences, continuities, and ruptures in the aims of civic education. Citizenship is a constitutive component of the modern state. Therefore, tracing how it is framed within the 1991 Constitution allows us to understand its particularity not only in political terms but also in terms of the pedagogical challenges involved in teaching it in schools. From this point forward, the transition to a Social State under the Rule of Law in Colombia entailed the adoption of principles such as human dignity, the free development of personality, the right to life, equality, the prohibition of all forms of discrimination, the protection of the family, the right to education, housing, a healthy environment, culture, and the social function of property. This expansion of the catalog of rights presents a twofold challenge: on the one hand, understanding the notion of citizenship proposed by the Constitution, and on the other, examining its impact on school education, transforming the inhabitants of the territory into citizens into a structural problem for the modern state and its educational policy