Citizen training: approaches in the pedagogical practice of primary school teachers

Abstract

This article raises as a research problem the lack of citizen training in public schools, especially in basic primary education, where processes are generated in a traditional, one-dimensional way and alien to the interests of the students. Likewise, this study seeks to understand the conceptions of teachers of this educational level about citizenship, in relation to pedagogical practice and to identify the necessary elements to build a comprehensive proposal. The methodology used is educational action research. The results identify little knowledge of teachers in citizenship education and a greater tendency towards a technical approach in notions, which indicates a technification of pedagogical practice in student training processes, requiring a collective conceptualization among all the actors.

Keywords

• basic training
• citizen education
• epistemic approaches
• pedagogical practice