The training of teaching professionals in relation to the teaching of Ethics. From Plans and Programs to educational practices.

• Main Author: Nirian Carbajal Rodríguez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía de la Educación 2016-12-01
• Series: IXTLI
• Online Access: http://ixtli.org/revista/index.php/ixtli/article/view/67

In times of neoliberal globalization, an exclusionary model of social groups, cultures, human lives, species and other beings of nature, it is crucial to think about the ethical dilemmas that are generated in terms of violence and destruction. In this scenario, it is necessary to enable ethical reflection on naturalized or assumed ways of living, both individually and socially when market rules prevail. Insofar as public education policies carry implicit conceptions of the world, of the subject and of knowledge, they can be analyzed, interpreted and subjected to value judgment. It is in the field of formal education, where the deconstruction and reconstruction of the values and principles that underpin these modes of thinking, feeling and acting are opened up. For these reasons, the analysis of the fundamentals of ethics training will be presented, from two sections of the Uruguayan educational system: the Initial and Primary Education Program (PEIP) and the National System of Teacher Training (SUNFD). In them, education is understood as liberating praxis, which implies assuming social responsibility in the face of situations of injustice and inequality that affect human dignity. The challenge is how to approach the training of educators from this framework.