Comunicación y participación hacia la transformación del ambiente escolar (Una experiencia con los estudiantes del ciclo IV de los Colegios Manuelita Sáenz IED y San Francisco IED, de Bogotá D.C.)

Abstract

In the present research project it is evident how in two official institutions of the Capital District there are institutional processes and practices designed and oriented towards participation. However, this institutional character of the forms of participation constitutes an impediment for the participation practices to be carried out in a free, constant and autonomous way. For this reason, four extracurricular experiences were systematized that promote participation processes in students of cycle IV of the schools Manuelita Sáenz IED and San Francisco IED. In these experiences, communication is a cross-cutting dimension of the daily practices of children and young people; therefore, it generates processes of transformation in which subjects are empowered with discourse, become more aware of their rights, more responsible with their Duties and develop a discursive capacity that leads them to interact with others in scenarios where the right to participate in the exercise of democracy becomes effective. Likewise, it seeks to investigate the human development of these young people, which may strengthen their status as citizens of the world that could lead them to be promoters of a culture of peace.