Hope for equity from global citizenship education. Children's voices on the right to go to school

Abstract

This essay analyzes the voices of primary school students and their discourses on what they think, how they feel and how they act in the face of the right to education and its violation. Freire's critical hope is a way to counter neoliberal discourses. This paper is framed in a qualitative case study research, where girls and boys from a public school participate as co-researchers. The results obtained allow us to interpret their knowledge of this problem as social agents. We have verified the synergy created between education for global citizenship and children's participation in order to strengthen a formative axis for future and future primary school teachers based on children's rights and citizenship education. We teach how to teach Social Sciences to encourage inclusive educational actions. Our contribution provides evidence for the improvement of initial teacher training plans and, therefore, for their future professional development.