Abstract:
In the last few years, there has been a remarkable growth of interest in gender issues, the promotion of equality, and attention to a conscious and disciplined use of new languages, especially those spread on social media. Phenomena such as the spread of stereotypes and prejudices, discrimination, sexism, and objectification, however, are posing more than concrete limits to the construction of educational processes. In a particular way, the school, the formal place of identity construction and citizen formation, suffers the incessant spread of modus and languages - the product of a media society - that incite schematization, separation, rather than that democratic process of inclusion and coexistence. Based on these stresses, the present contribution aims to reconstruct a new idea of social and democratic citizenship based on cultural pedagogical constructs, and on the idea that educational processes take place in a cultural context.