CRESE EDUCATION IN COLOMBIA: COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIES TO CULTIVATE HAPPINESS AND SCHOOL COEXISTENCE

Abstract

In Colombia, CRESE (Citizenship, Reconciliation, Socio-Emotional, Anti-Racism, and Climate Action) education is a public policy that proposes the transformation of the education system, focusing on the comprehensive education of children, adolescents, and young people, in equity and justice, valuing their abilities, needs, preferences, and identity. This approach affirms and demonstrates that academic education is not independent of citizenship and the socio-emotional component, since the practice of education is articulated, flexible, and responsible for a diverse being who coexists with a community in a physical, emotional, and environmental setting; and who, therefore, is co-responsible for its care and for building peace for harmonious and prosperous coexistence. CRESE is based on the promotion of a dignified education, valuing human rights and integrating the dimensions of the human being (ethical, emotional, cognitive, cultural, etc.), as a banner that seeks to make education a collective construction, transforming the school into a platform for justice, equity, acceptance, and mutual care, sowing hope and rebuilding a shattered society. It proposes centers of interest as an alternative consistent with its foundations and closer to comprehensive education. It is based on the General Education Law, the Political Constitution, Law 1732 (Chair of Peace), Law 1620 (School Coexistence), and other decrees that validate the implementation of CRESE. This text, in the form of an argumentative dissertation, proposes reflection and invites the transformation of education by bringing comprehensive education strategies into the classroom.