Cátedra de la Paz, un año despues del decreto 1038 del 2015: aplicación en tres contextos educativos

Abstract

During the last years in Colombia, there have been processes of dialogue between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and Colombian government, being the most successful process developed under Juan Manuel Santos President's mandate, in the last five years. As a result of this process of dialogue and thinking about post-conflict, it was proposed to establish a chair to teach in all educational institutions of the country a series of contents in order to give to the future citizens the tools that will allow them to construct a culture of Peace in Colombia. This chair was approved under the law 1732 of 2014 and guided by the decree of the Ministry of Education 1038 of 2015. The decree establishes, among other things, that since January 1st, 2016 all educational establishments in Colombia must include within its curriculum this chair. This article proposes an analysis of three educational scenarios: a public school, a private school and a university, this with the purpose of examining the implementation of this chair after a year since the appearance of the decree; to see if it is being fulfilled or not the contents proposed by the ministry, how the chair was included within the institution's curriculum; as a separate area or as a subject within an established area, also to know the objectives proposed and the way the methodology used by the schools for this chair. Therefore, it was developed an instrument that allowed us, in an exploratory way, to establish that those who developed these projects did not do it in accordance with the norm, because what they applied lacks of clarity about what should and should not be done in educational institutions