Concepciones de justicia social y paz en niños y niñas de la escuela popular Minuto de Dios, Cazucá. Estudio de caso para la construcción de educación para la paz

Abstract

The present work is a reflective approach to the conceptions of social justice and peace as lived by the children of “Escuela Popular Minuto de Dios” located in Cazucá, Soacha, through the recognition of the child’s experience in key rights of which they are holders. This involves identifying the conditions of reality in which the children have grown up in contexts of vulnerability where the relational system to the adult world determines how life experience unfolds, and where the construction of subjectivity signifies the construction of reality. In this sense, children are positioned as fully developed political and social subjects capable of propositive agency within their contexts, placing their voices, eyes, and meanings in the interaction with their relational agents and oriented to think about possible futures different from the current and past histories. The research has a qualitative case study methodology, which centers around intersecting the experiences of boys and girls with the social worlds in which they live. The focus is placed on their relationships with adults, allowing them to visualize their voice and to see the potential that they deploy as social actors that not only interpret the social structures and processes around them but also have transformative agency for the construction of peace, which enables us to situate and understand childhood in the “Escuela Popular Minuto de Dios”.