TEACHER TRAINING IN GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN FOUR LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES: COLOMBIA, CHILE, MEXICO AND PERU

Abstract

The Global Citizenship Education (GCED) is one of the strategic areas of the UNESCO Educational Sector Program for the period 2014-2021. In this way, education has been given responsibility for building a peaceful and sustainable world where the knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and behaviors that it conveys enable individuals to make informed decisions and take active roles at local, national and global levels. The International Civic and Citizenship Education Study: 2016 (ICCS) allowed to know the results of the investment in GCED, in 24 countries, regarding the students, taking as indicators their levels of civic knowledge, their perceptions about this subject, as well as their behaviors and civic practices. The presence of GCED in educational contexts also leads us to reflect on its status and intrinsic characteristics because the complexity of its approach requires professionals with the capacity to analyze problems whose resolution presupposes a positioning against reference practices, as well as their articulation with current ethical and political assumptions. The need for teacher training in GCED has made us question how it occurs in the four countries of Latin America - Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru - that integrated the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study: 2016.

Keywords: Teacher Training; Education for Citizenship; UNESCO; Comparative Education; Colombia: Chile; Mexico; Peru.