Enseñanza de la democracia y la ciudadanía en estudiantes de educación básica secundaria y media: Estudio de caso del colegio Tecnisistemas

Abstract

Citizen competencies derive from a set of skills and abilities that guide citizen action, taught regularly within the educational institutions of any democratic State. Under this simple premise, this document is given the task of approaching the reasons why these competencies are not clear within the educational institutions in Colombia, being more specific, in the Tecnisistemas school, located in the town of Bosa. The problem manifests itself in the face of the little participation of citizens in a democratic State, that is, it lies in what the citizen considers democracy; since, without the notion of democracy, it would not be possible to speak of a citizen, much less of citizen competences. Thus, it is determined within the theory, the denomination of what democracy implies, from its simplest and most common meaning that any regime that declares itself democratic has, such is the case of access to the election of its representatives, to the very definition that liberal democracy is actually contradictory because a state, proposed by Atilio Borón (2015) and Boaventura de Sousa (2017), cannot depend on a citizen who cares only about economic and individual well-being, since it requires that cares about a common good, redefining liberal democracy through other terms such as Post-dictatorship or non-existent Social Contract.