PEDAGOGICAL MODEL FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION WITH A COMMON GOOD PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Education as a common good has as its distinctive feature-a renewed purpose for the formation of citizens in favor of integral human development and in a context of economic, social and environmental sustainability that favors it. For this purpose, the educational process must address the development of all the potentialities and capabilities of the individual, from a holistic and humanistic vision so that he/she may discover and fulfill his/her personal and professional vocation in order to address the main social challenges in a committed and supportive manner to contribute positively to social transformation. This new view of education goes beyond a utilitarian approach, as it integrates the multiple dimensions of human existence and considers the educational process as an inclusive and crucial factor to promote democracy and human rights, the formation of citizenship and the promotion of a culture of peace. As a proposal derived from this humanistic approach to education arises the pedagogical model called `pedagogy of the common good´, whose anthropological foundations are based on the centrality of the human person and the social values of respect for the dignity of the person, solidarity, subsidiarity, truth, freedom, justice, common good and love. In addition, this pedagogical model is based on four principles: integral experience, culture of encounter, transforming leadership and transcendence in the common good. The concretization of the model allows the generation of the following learning: learning to be integral, learning to live together, learning to transform and learning to transcend. The ´pedagogy of the common good´ favors the development of meaningful experiences that facilitate the full development of the talents of the students in all their potential in an integral manner, so that they grow in a spirit of solidarity and become promoters of justice for all, care for the family, respect for the dignity of human life, protection of nature, the search for peace from the donation, otherness and mission.