Abstract

QUINTERO MEJIA, Marieta  and  MATEUS MALAVER, Jennifer. Moral and political feelings in civic education in Colombia: attributes and stigmas. Folios [online]. 2014, n.39, pp.137-147. ISSN 0123-4870.

The processes of civic education have been focused on the strengthening of the cognitive path of morals, which has led to locating moral and political feelings in a restricted place. This allows us to understand, to a considerable extent, the reasons for which we have valued these feelings as vital for our political and moral life. Because of this, feelings such as empathy, solidarity, indignation, among others, have been stripped of their intersubjective nature and been pushed back into the field of irrationality. In order to account for this, this article presents some attributes and stigmas of feelings in the process of civic education. To this aim, scholarly texts are analysed (1800, to be exact), and the results of interviews with members of educational institutions in four Colombian departments affected by the Colombian armed conflict are given. We consider that the meaning of the public, the processes of socialisation, subjectivity, as well as our forms of collective action, are motivated, in some way, by feelings which trigger rejection/indifference; resistance/apathy when faced with situations where our rights are violated.

Keywords : Moral and political feelings; indignation; shame; repulsion; rights; resistance.

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