Social sciences and civic education:Of tautology to the reality of societies denied citizenship
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.unipluri.11082Keywords:
relevance, postmodernism, ethos, new citizenship, "battlefield"Abstract
The times do not change now with the change before, or at least the times have not been, are and will remain the same, as they have been, are or will be the subjects they read, see and live such changes, produce, or simply(or are) affected by them. But the contemporary times, with all the seemingly crushing burden of a mass of conflicting information, disjointed most of the times, and hollow at the end, called postmodern moment, dazed definitely seem to most people and not so obvious identifies and moves even novelty or "object" relevant care, close observation of diverting funds that are hidden in a faint confusing jargon, mediated and lethally poor and dull. The reflection, the result of observation of a life of just two decades as a teacher in different regional contexts Colombian and reading some literature on pedagogy and education, discusses whether to accept, by a slight exercise tolerance, or perhaps because of fatigue, we're really new facts before questioning our role and ethos as teachers, or rather, as you defend, when called to raise the flags from the 80 seem to have lowered the teachers' movement in Latin America and, thanks to which, now tens of thousands of women and men that we have formed in the vocation of educating the new generations have or have agreed to stop the "battlefield" which speak Zuleta, legions of other women and men should at least be warned and warned that in its exercise of peremptory obligation to contribute to an authentic renewal of construction education and, finally, a human being for a new citizenship and a society where justice and lasting peace.
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