Escuelas de formación: política con enfoque constitucional

Abstract

Colombia does not have an educational directive that demands the development of Schools of Political Formation (E.F.P.: acronym in Spanish) directed for the general community. This contributes to the poor political culture of that people in general, creating a lack of citizen participation, and a lack of structuring in order to take democratic decisions; furthermore, the ignorance about the importance of the political ambit. In contrast, some collective or individual initiatives have included amongst their practices this kind of formation, under the belief about its potential to equip the citizens with tools tending to the political participation. Such efforts have been advanced from the knowing and experience of those who undertake the work, however, without to standardize their methodological and thematic lines. Before this problematic situation, the present work taking account of the constitutional literature analysis, the political formation and the methodological perspectives of teaching, has as its objective the design of a standardized thematic content for the development of Schools of Political Formation for Young People, with a constitutional focus.