Political Practices and Citizen Education with Gender Perspective. Analysis in Some Universities in Bucaramanga, Colombia

Abstract

The research project “Political practices and citizen education with
gender perspective. Analysis in some universities in Bucaramanga,
Colombia”, had the purpose of improving citizen education plans in Higher Institutions. To accomplish the research objective, it as considered: to know the theoretical approaches that base the citizen education in educative/ formative plans of Higher institutions and their institutional programs; to identify the mechanisms that structures subjectivities and gender identities that support social practices on the citizenship of Higher Institution's' students in Bucaramanga, and finally, to contribute to Higher Institutions
in Bucaramanga with coherent strategies of citizen education according to the expectations and interests of youth community. During the work field six Higher Institutions of Bucaramanga participated and were conducted 13 semi-structured interviews to institution's chiefs’ officers. Moreover, they were conducted six focus groups with 163 students of both genders. The results show that Higher Institutions of Bucaramanga should focus on developing their institutional educative projects regarding integral education action plans. Those findings indicate a teaching-learning process guided by competences where Know and Be allows to build a personal identity and the conscience to have attitudinal control. Likewise, citizen education should lead youth to argue all the structures that mediate their relationships. Similarly, citizen education would be the room to achieve affective and critic communication, and to recognize the voices and criteria of others to interact with diversity and to stage the tolerance, respect and solidarity within a pluralistic thought. The methodology used to collect the information has been qualitative, through semi-structured in-depth interviews and workshops with different actors. analysis leads to identify some key elements that obscure the legislative and jurisprudential successes that de Colombian State has achieved in terms of reparation with a gender approach. The results indicate the need to go beyond gender as a differentiating category, to achieve greater effectiveness in the reparation proposed to the victims.