Construction of citizenship through socratic dialogue in intercultural contexts

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https://doi.org/10.31391/S2007-7033(2022)0060-002

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education, global citizenship, socratic dialogue, intercultural relations

Abstract

Over the last two decades, more and more higher education institutions around the world have taken significant strides to educate their students in what some call global citizenship, others call 21st-century citizenship, and others, critical democratic citizenship, according to the approach taken. In this text, this concept can be understood as a way of positioning oneself consciously and autonomously in an increasingly complex world to exert a positive transformational influence on it. There have been as many different paths to develop global citizenship skills as there are ways to measure them. This text presents some preliminary results from a first teaching-learning experience at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City campus, in 2018. It investigates the use of The Socratic Dialogues in cross-cultural environments as a tool to develop the three basic Global Citizenship skills: Critical thinking, empathy, and solidarity.

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Author Biography

José Luis Bermeo Vega, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México

Doctor en Derechos Humanos: Retos Éticos, Sociales y Políticos, con mención Cum Laude, por la Universidad de Deusto, España. Académico del Departamento de Reflexión Interdisciplinaria de la Universidad Iberoamericana. Coordina el proyecto de investigación “Humanismo en clave de ciudadanía. El diálogo socrático en contextos interculturales como herramienta para el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico, la empatía cultural y la solidaridad”.

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Published

2023-01-11

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No. 60 (2023): Promoting learning and capacities for active and critical global citizenship

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Thematic research

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