The Pedagogy of Alterity in the Deconstruction of Xenophobia and the Construction of Nos-Others: A view from the Perception of Civic Education Teachers of the Dirección Regional de San José Oeste

Abstract

The purpose of this document is to articulate different processes that intervened in the final graduation work of the Licenciatura of Social Studies and Civic Education Teaching. From a theoretical point of view, an analysis is carried out based on concepts such as xenophobia, interculturality, Civic Education and Pedagogy of Otherness. These concepts are fundamental for the methodological section where each of the stages implies the development of the proposed objectives: the documentary analysis, interviews with teachers and administrators and teacher training workshop on the pedagogy of otherness. From the pedagogy of otherness, the deconstruction of practices that tarnish adequate human coexistence, such as xenophobia, is advocated for the construction of a pedagogy of Nos-Others, where, based on empathy and otherness, the understanding of the other and their contributions is sought in the construction of a just and democratic society.