MORAL EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: A POLITICAL-PEDAGOGICAL PROJECT

Abstract

Moral education is a field of studies and practices in which different perspectives are inscribed, many of which are exempt from making explicit their political intentionality and do not give centrality to moral problems that concern the causes and consequences of a profoundly unequal society. The objective of this article is to theoretically support a perspective of moral education for social transformation. To this end, we delimit its political-pedagogical foundations, conceptualizing morality as a historical, sociocultural, political and personal construction, and defining its political objective. From this conceptual framework, we circumscribe its pedagogical objective to the construction of socio-moral competences, values and moral identity. Finally, we present some methodological parameters anchored in constructivist epistemology and propose Learning by Social Projects as a methodological strategy that responds to the principles of a moral education for social transformation.