Interculturality and teaching of Social Sciences at the secondary level. Reflections from the interdisciplinary project Sowing rights, reaping freedoms

Abstract

The article first presents the implications and potential of working with approaches that allow the development of critical thinking in students. Hence, views such as interculturality, the human rights approach, as well as that of relevant social problems are recovered. In a second part, the educational experience carried out at the ICT-Mediated Rural Secondary School No. 5240 in the province of Salta is analyzed. This experience focuses on the implementation of an interdisciplinary project called “Sowing rights, reaping freedoms”, which involved subjects such as Ethics and Citizenship Training, History and Geography. Recovering the aforementioned approaches, the project seeks to problematize social reality from the contributions of each discipline and contribute to reflection and intervention in the reality of students, while taking on the challenge of offering contextualized and diverse learning experiences.

The proposal was also framed in the 40 years of recovery of democracy in our country, thus it is essential to review the validity of human rights, among them, the right to a healthy environment, through environmental education, the right to identity of peoples, through intercultural education and the right to citizen participation.