Journalistic narration as a strategy for citizen formation in the school press

Abstract

This article expounds the main findings in the research “The Mediation of the School Press in the Citizen Formation and the Ethics”, which was conducted by Prensa Escuela [School Press], a program carried out as a covenant between the colleges Pontificia Bolivariana, Universidad San Buenaventura and the newspaper El Colombiano from Medellín. Using a qualitative methodology with document review, the writings produced for the annual publications of El Taller (2012-2016) were systematized. Then a hermeneutic analysis allowed seeing how the narration, with journalistic genres, has been a significant strategy for the formation of the youth in citizen’s issues. It was found that the critical thinking, the narrative imagination and the empathy with others are strengthened. This strategy also reinforces the construction of the youth identity and the awareness of their responsibility as actors of the history, by participating with their words and not only as spectators of the events.