Estudios Sobre Infancia y Mundo

Description of the subject

This course will be developed in the virtual mode. An active methodology will be established supported in forums, essays, work guidelines, content analysis, and others. Providing the necessary space for students to analyze and understand the historical and cultural processes that have been woven around the childhood and tending importance within the political agendas of countries. This course favors the development of basic institutional competence "historical-cultural and environmental awareness," all of it coming from the documented reflection of reality; linking the experiences of comprehensive care programs for early childhood in Latin America, Colombia and the Atlantic department, with theories and legal international and national agreements; and social implications that these agreements involve. In addition, students are encouraged to design and generate proposals for action to meet the demands of the local context, contributing with the comprehensive in early childhood care, from their position as a responsible citizen for the development of infants; as it envisaged in the public policy of Early Childhood.

Justification

Attention to early childhood has become a priority issue over time in the agendas of different organizations and countries worldwide. Currently it is committed to greater investment in early childhood; which directly affects with more benefits in an economic, social and political level within society. This look at early childhood is linked to new ways of conceiving the infant and its development; just like new visions as well as the rights approach and gender perspective are integrated. Colombia is not isolated from these social and cultural changes; It was like this that in 2006 the Public Policy for Early Childhood of Colombia was established.

Public policy for early childhood, poses as fundamental principle the co responsibility, which translates into the concurrence of the commitment of different actors on the same subject, from their own roles. In this sense, for the comprehensive protection of children, co responsibility means that both the State, as well as the family and society, have a different role of responsibility: the family as the responsible for personality development and initial capacities of the child, as the first responsible for their care, upbringing and education; the state has an ethical, economic, political and legal responsibility to ensure the conditions for the exercise of rights; and society, as responsible and instituting of legitimacy and enforceability of the validity of rights. In this sense, each subject becomes a co-responsible agent of childhood; for this reason the professionals from different disciplines must be trained and sensitized in this regard.

From this space we intend to develop a critical, reflective and forward thinking in regard to the quality of life of our children, with an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach from addressing the issues from different disciplines and different cultural approaches generated from the many experiences in early childhood that are in Latin America, Colombia and our Department of the Atlantic.

Aim of the course

This course will focus on:

Critically analyze historical and cultural processes that have been woven around children; and the contexts of early childhood education at local, national and international levels; contributing to the quality of life of Colombian children, from project design and intervention plans.

Course contents

1.To be a boy or a girl

2. Rights and gender approach in early childhood

3. Early Childhood as Public Policy

4. Significant experiences of comprehensive care in early childhood

5. Intervention proposed for comprehensive care in early childhood