La formación ciudadana, una estrategia didáctica para el Empoderamiento Social en la comunidad de Manzanares de Santa Marta.

Abstract

This research was carried out with the main purpose of developing a didactic proposal for citizen training that aims to promote social empowerment within the community of “Manzanares” neighborhood in the city of Santa Marta. This proposal involves different concerns about what to be a citizen means, such as: active participation, democratic participation, participation mechanisms, rights protection mechanisms, social empowerment, among others. On the other hand, this study is an action-research and is sheltered by the qualitative paradigm, the information collection instruments were designed taking into account these elements, which in this case are: a moderator's script to organize a focus group and a semi-structured interview. These were evaluated and validated by three experts. Eventually, the importance of this project lies in its ability to generate training spaces and workshops where people can learn and reflect about the issues addressed by citizenship education, it also strengthens the link between the community and the community action board, thus, achieving active participation and in the same way social empowerment is promoted, seeing it as a capacity that will allow generating positive changes within the society reality.