¿Quiénes son los ciudadanos y cómo están siendo definidos por los jóvenes?

Abstract

For the sake of consolidating the concepts of citizen and citizenship and the characteristics attributed to them, the 19th century national political constitutions are a valuable starting point. From this, Colombia has been recognized as a country highly influenced by political, social and economic indoctrinations that favor the particular interests over the collectives, leaving aside the importance of the public. This phenomenon that undermines the rights of the citizen, confusing the logic of thinking a country in terms of everyone, led to these elections becoming increasingly patent as a rupture between political representation and social conflict, which is why fundamental rights have been violated throughout the history of the country, being necessary to resort to scenarios of social, political and even armed dispute, to claim access to benefits distributed among a few. Thus, understanding the transformation process that the concept of citizenship contemplated by the Colombian constitutions of the 19th century has undergone, it is necessary to take as a reference the sociopolitical implications that these constitutions have had in the current educational process and the persuasive effects that have unleashed on According to the national context, this chapter aims to give an account of the ethnographic experience carried out with a group of seventy-five (75) tenth-grade students from two schools (Santa Mariana de Jesús -private-, and Aníbal Fernández de Soto - public) in the city of Bogotá, who from their sociocultural and educational contexts become key pieces to describe and analyze what is currently understood as citizens and citizens, and what are the conceptions of past centuries that still prevail in daily life and permeate Colombian culture.