Abstract

CELY RODRIGUEZ, Alexander  and  MORENO LACHE, Nubia. Building citizens through space languages. Folios [online]. 2008, n.28, pp.64-73. ISSN 0123-4870.

This reflection came up as a reply to national and international concerns on the necessity of planning and developing some new approaches to citizenship education dealing with diverse and complex transformation moments. The current project has been developed in agreement with the worked carried out by the research program "Ciudad Educadora" and "Pedagogia Urbana." It is also part of the concerns about the didactics of Geography, one of the topics the Geopaideia group has been interested for a long time. This article invites readers to reflect about different education contexts tending to generate a new conception, and specially a new way of interacting with the urban space. Those contexts should promote an original language and sense from and in the city, showing the citizenship education as a process starting from the geography teaching-learning exchange. It means that the educational process should go beyond the classroom walls. This reflection is supported not only by a pertinent reference framework, but also by the socialization of different pedagogical experiences in the classroom (With the program Lebecs at the upn) that bring to the reader the opportunity of observing and redefining the relationship between geography and citizenship.

Keywords : Geography; citizenship; learning; classroom experience; citizenship competences.

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