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This paper shows the results of the first phase of a school of audiovisual communication, wich is mediated by information technology. For it, we identified two types of narratives. Firstly, one about the beneficial impacts in the technology access and appropriation, and in values, derivated from collaborative processes carried out by students to strengthen as social collective. Secondly, others that form a first corpus of contents, with wich the school wants to narrate and represent itself as successful case of peace buiding in the region. Our thesis is that such narratives show that the processes of appropriation of information and digital communication technologies strengthen processes of comunity communication and creative citizenships, based on values emerged among collaborative relations and interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses, from a historical perspective, the forms of representation of the independence process present in textbooks that circulated in schools in the Colombian Caribbean region during the twentieth century. Some of the most representative texts of history for schools in the region were selected as the source and object of study; through them, are analyzed and identified aspects closely related to independence, such as national identity, the citizenship formation processes, the construction of the nation state and the role of the Caribbean region as founder of the new republican regime in those times. The paper places special emphasis on the analysis of historiographical and pedagogical trends pertaining to the textbooks analyzed and which eventually undoubtedly influenced the type of representation and collective imaginary about the process of independence embodied in these artifacts of ideological and cultural character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the dimensions of citizenship, helping to recognize how work has been done around the concept and practices of being a citizen in different social, economic, political and cultural contexts. In this way, the document traces the ways of conceiving citizenship in different periods of history and emphasizes the new constructions developed today. Finally, we will refer to a theme of citizenship as a social construction resulting from the intersubjectivities of human beings with other human beings and the institutions that make up societies in each historical moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents and analyzes the imaginaries of Barranquilla's children of Colombia about citizenship. This research project, which originates this article, is focused on imaginaries because it considers that the way the reality is conceived by people has consequences in the role and behaviour of individual's within a given society. Data were collected by means of group discussions and field notes. Variables such as citizenship imaginary, power and participation were analysed in children between 9 to 11 years old selected from low, middle and high socioeconomic strata of the Barranquilla city, in order to understand how these individuals are being integrated as citizens in their society and what aspects strengthening or weakening their interest towards collective issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]