Challenges for Peacebuilding and Citizenship Learning in Colombia

• Main Author: Ángela María Guerra-Sua
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 2019-01-01
• Series: Magis: Revista Internacional de Investigación en Educación
• Subjects: social studies; history education; peacebuilding; citizenship education; colombia
• Online Access: https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/MAGIS/article/view/24512

Some education practices can impede learning democratic citizenship agency by reinforcing injustices or omitting dis­senting perspectives. Other practices may help address con­flict issues through problem-posing inquiry activities. This literature review explores the ways social sciences’ curriculum practices can select knowledges that enhance peace or exa­cerbates violence. Considering peace and conflict theories, I highlight the limitations and possibilities for peacebuilding of Colombia’s citizenship and social sciences’ curricula. Also, I discuss the ways certain social studies curriculum decisions (selections and omissions) may reproduce violence, injustice and passivity. Finally, I discuss how certain practices may de­velop critical citizenship capacities to handle conflicts.