Beyond Achievement: Colombia’s Escuela Nueva and the Creation of Active Citizens

Synergy of design, culture, and innovation in pedagogy: New horizons for education

“…Escuela Nueva is a successful model of rural education in Colombia that focuses on active, cooperative, and personalized learning, with an emphasis on respecting each student's cultural identity (Villar, 1995). The model has significantly improved learning outcomes in rural areas of the country, reducing dropout rates and increasing student engagement (Luschei & Soto-Peña, 2019).…”

“…We conducted a third case study on Escuela Nueva in Colombia. Escuela Nueva, which translates to "New School," is an innovative education model that originated in Colombia in the late 1970s (Luschei & Soto-Peña, 2019). The brainchild of educator and social entrepreneur Vicky Colbert, the Escuela Nueva approach was developed to address the challenges faced by rural and low-income communities in providing quality education to their children (Goduscheit et al, 2021).…”

Development, implementation and evaluation of a framework for service-learning integration in teacher education empowered by new technologies

“…It seems that students' role as active citizens is empowered when they are able to connect theory and practice and take initiatives, as well as when they are able to challenge their ideas, values and beliefs and take actions towards change (Jenkins & Sheehey, 2019). Thus, it seems that self-awareness, cooperation, believing in changes and ability to build visions and take initiatives are important characteristics of active citizens (Bekkers, 2005;Luschei & Soto-Peña, 2019). In addition, these are the characteristics that we should nourish within the Primary Education Department if we want our students to become active citizens.…”