Prácticas de cultura universitaria. El caso del ciclo de formación ciudadana de la Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios Sede Bello

Abstract

The article analyzes the Centro de Educación para el Desarrollo (CED or Center for Education towards Development, in English) of the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto) wagers about the citizen formation cycle. The paper assesses the efforts taken on by that academic unit to carry out the individual and social development of its students from the aperture of spaces for citizen, ethic-political, civic, coexistence and consolidation of democracy reflections. The analysis begins with the citizen formation cycle creation and background consolidation, the conceptual bases that moderated the citizenship topic in the CED, the citizenship conference principles, the thematic lines that took part of that strategy, the strategic alliances between the planned jobs of the CED to enhance the citizenship culture activities, and the cycle´s perspectives and orientations. The study is supported by primary information consulted from the CED´s archive management of Uniminuto´s campus in Bello, and complementary bibliography of institutional and pedagogic character in the Education for Development (EfD) perspective.