Hacia una ciudadanía democrática e intercultural. Apuntes para la formación del profesorado

• Published in: Publicaciones de la Facultad de Educación y Humanidades del Campus de Melilla 2017-01, Vol.47, p.37
• Main Authors: Sierra Nieto, J Eduardo, Ester Caparrós Martín, Vila Merino, Eduardo S, Martín Solbes, Víctor M
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Subjects: Citizenship; Citizenship Education; Cultural Pluralism; Democracy; Self Concept; Teacher Improvement; Teacher Qualifications; Teaching
• ISSN: 1577-4147; 1577-4147
• DOI: 10.30827/publicaciones.v47i0.7196

Nowadays, the building of democratic citizenship cannot be unders tood apart from the considerations of respect and measures aimed at encourage cultural diversity; especially with the aggravation in racist discourses and manifestations, and the successive humanitarian crisis with respect to immigration. In light of this situation, in this paper we propose to combine civic education from the intercultural paradigm. For this, we reclaim, for the one hand, the role of the school as a cultural mediation place and encou- raging of intercultural coexistence; on the other hand, we emphasize the importance role that teachers play as social agents with broad involvement in the formation of democratic citizenship; both aspects as complementary. From this, we investigate different studies that stand out some deficiencies in many of the proposals for service teaching [of the teachers] that are developed from an intercultural perspective. Finally, we insist on the urgency to reinforce a type of service teaching in intercultural key; so, it is necessary to encourage the “self knowledge” as an important element of the relationship with “the other”.