Barrio Santa Fe: una mirada a la formación ciudadana desde la vida cotidiana

Abstract

The undergraduate final work to partially fulfill the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Basic Education with Major in Social Sciences is done on the basis of understanding everyday life and the relation it has with citizen training. That is the starting point to reflect upon how to approach geographical education, which, according to Rodriguez (2010) is the instance in which the teacher grounds all the theoretical framework to the reality of institutions and students, and concentrates on the sense geography and social sciences teachability to allow recognition of one’s closest space: the environment, the setting. It is related to the students’ everyday practices by which they get to know the neighborhood they live in and recognize their transforming role in society, in general, and in their particular environment. The work was carried out in IED República Bolivariana de Venezuela School, located at the neighborhood of Santa Fe, in Bogota, Colombia, with ninth graders that attend school in the morning. The theoretical, methodological and pedagogical horizons that support the proposal are New Human Geography with a Geography of Everyday Life approach, as well as educational ethnography and the cognitive social learning model.