What we do
Citizen education
This research area is based on a commitment with the world to educate persons that make decisions for the common good, justice, and that have the competence to undertake initiatives to improve the quality of the environment.
It is considered that education is the main medium by which one can advance towards a citizen democracy which goes farther than electoral citizenship. Therefore, in this line is found: to generate learning opportunities that favor citizenship practice, by means of a participative methodology in which children and youth fulfill initiatives that will improve the quality of their own environment, and develop citizen and democratic capabilities. We are looking for this strategy to be congruent with present day pedagogy, focused to involve the students participation in the construction of his-her own learning.
Field experience
Design and adaptation of participative models for formal educational environments. Participative work in collaboration with teachers, students, administrators and those responsible for doing public politics in the design of innovative educational practices that will take to the classroom opportunities to develop citizen and democratic capabilities.
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Recent stories
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Greater than one.
With the goal of accomplishing Mission 2015, the Technological School of Monterrey, developed the Citizen Formation area. Its core course, Citizen formation and social commitment, designed by Via Education, with the collaboration of professors of the Technological School, uses the learning-service didactic technique. The students also learn the citizen conceptual frame and fulfill social participation initiatives in diverse communities where they follow a strategy that hopes to build local capabilities and empowering persons so that they improve their environment quality (participative sustainable system).
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Young citizens.
The Student Council of the Guadalupe Primary School fulfilled a consultation in which they observed that what the majority of the persons wanted to improve was the high temperatures in the classroom environment.
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How should citizen education be taught?
Fernando Reimers from Harvard University will direct an investigation on Civic education in collaboration with Via Education.
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