Colombia and its educational perspective: an approach to socio-critical thinking from the Social Sciences

Abstract

The present work proposes a look at education in Colombia and the subject Social Sciences in the national panorama to deepen its qualities as a science and its practice within the Colombian education system. For the analysis of the historical and theoretical references of the object of study, as well as of its current tendencies, the research from which the work is derived, used the historical logical method, direct observation, the method of analysis and synthesis, together with the method of induction and deduction. The research allowed us to approach the problem of how the social sciences can contribute to propitiate scenarios more related to peace for a territory so vulnerable due to themes of conflict and violence; the possibilities that education opens up to glimpse through socio-critical thought a route that can contribute to a well-founded formation that prepares reflexive, critical and conscious subjects of their present, with a view to having the capacity to contribute to the future of the society in which they live. It is shown how from education and by means of the subject Social Sciences it is possible to contribute favorably to the harmonic development in the national panorama.