Abstract

RODRIGUEZ MC KEON, Lucía Elena. Ethics and Civic Education in the School: Between Instruction and Formation. Folios [online]. 2015, n.41, pp.37-50. ISSN 0123-4870.

The research results presented in this paper refer to the analysis of the processes of meaning made by primary school teachers related to the Integral Program of Ethics and Civic Education within the scope of their practice. This proposal, led from 2008, introduces a democratic character into education that becomes anathema to the constitutional and patriotic approach that has prevailed in education. Through an intensive qualitative investigation a case study was conducted in a primary school in Mexico City. Supported by in-depth interviews and observation of 10 teachers of first to sixth grades, we reconstruct the assessment given by teachers to the new program, in terms of its significance and transfer within the scope of their practice. The thesis for discussion suggests that appropriation of the new civic and ethical education approach is hindered by the presence of a way to manage the pedagogical knowledge that reproduces a culture of instruction at the expense of democratic formation processes that are focused on deliberation and critical understanding.

Keywords : Civic and ethical education; deliberation; critical understanding; inculcation and deliberation.

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