Perspectivas conceptuales y experienciales de la educación política: una mirada desde el grupo "Educar para la Polis".

Conceptual and Experiential Perspectives on Political Education: A View from the Educar para la Polis Group.

The Academic Working Group Educar para la Polis has been reflecting on Political Education. In this article, some conceptual approaches about Education in the political field are explained, such as Civic Instruction, Civic Education and Citizen Formation. Then, the experiences of some teachers who are members of the academic working group are described, to identify the perspectives that they have built about Political Education from their own practice. This was developed from a questionnaire that inquired about aims, contents, methods and assessment procedures which are considered pertinent in the teaching process. The above to qualify practices and contributing to build democratic societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El grupo de trabajo académico "Educar para la Polis" viene reflexionando acerca de la educación política. En este artículo se exponen perspectivas conceptuales sobre la educación en el campo político, tales como instrucción cívica, educación cívica y formación ciudadana. Luego se describen experiencias de algunos docentes pertenecientes a dicho grupo, con la finalidad de identificar las percepciones que han construido sobre la educación política, desde su práctica. Esta se desarrolló a partir de un cuestionario, que indagó sobre los propósitos, contenidos, métodos y procedimientos de evaluación que consideran pertinentes para el proceso de enseñanza. Lo anterior para cualificar las prácticas, contribuyendo a construir sociedades democráticas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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