Características de la Espiritualidad Bethlemita que Subyacen a la Realización de la Labor Social de los Estudiantes del Grado Décimo del Colegio Bethlemitas de Palmira

Abstract

The horizon of the Institute of the Bethlemite Sisters is to educate in love for service. In it we find the path that guides all the actions that the Institution proposes. One of the ways in which service becomes concrete is through the social work done by the tenth grade students at Colegio Bethlemitas de Palmira, through which they seek to know the needs of their environment and contribute to its improvement. The Educational Institution projects that the social work done by the students is not driven by compliance, but as an opportunity to experience the spirituality of the Institute transmitted through the pastoral management. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the pastoral process, the objective of this research is to describe the characteristics of Bethlehem's spirituality that underlie the social work of the students in the tenth grade of the Institute. To do this, it is necessary to have clarity about the characteristics of Bethlehem's spirituality, to observe and analyze the social work that the students carry out in the light of that spirituality, and to evaluate the interaction between Bethlehem's spirituality and the social work. The purpose of this is to know which characteristics have been appropriate, which have not and why they have not been appropriated, in order to qualify the mission of the educational pastoral care of the institution, to strengthen those aspects that favour the appropriation of the characteristics of the spirituality and its projection both in the school environment and in the social environment. The data collected in this research was obtained through observation and recorded in field journals, interviews with the tenth grade students of Colegio Bethlemitas, as well as some teachers and directors of the institution. The bibliography was contrasted with the reality researched regarding the appropriation of the characteristics of Bethlemite spirituality and its experience in the context of the social work of the tenth grade students. According to the above, the following chapters are found in the present work of investigation: 1) Chapter I "Preliminaries", presents the question of the problem of the investigation, the objectives to be reached, the justification of the investigation to be carried out, the state in question through which a general description of the context in which the investigation is going to be carried out is made, as well as the subjects of the investigation and culminates with the methodology that is going to be followed in the investigative process. 2) Chapter II "Framework of Reference": This chapter deals with the theoretical concepts that support the research, which are divided into three categories: "Bethlehemite spirituality", "educational pastoral care", and "social work", each one with subcategories that allow a greater depth in the proposed research. 3) Chapter III "Interpretation of the research experience", where the interpretation of the research experience is carried out through the triangulation of information, which allows a comparative analysis between the authors and their proposals in the framework of reference, the observations recorded in the field journals, as well as the information collected in the interviews with students and some directors and teachers of the institution, the contribution and interpretation of the researcher. Finally, the conclusions of the research, the bibliographic references used throughout the development of the project and the annexes that were of vital importance in the development of the project are presented.