El cuidado y la ciudadanía sostenible. ¿Una relación problemática? ¿UNA RELACIÓN PROBLEMÁTICA?

Abstract

As part of a doctoral program, a participatory action research has been conducted to explore the possibilities offered by the notion of Quantum Satis, of pharmacology and food safety, to cultivate sustainable citizenship. For two years, students, teachers, non-teaching groups and families of a kindergarten and primary school in the Andorran Pyrenees, collaborated in the co-production of meanings that allow to outline a conceptual and operational framework for the learning of sustainable self-regulation of consumption. This article focuses on partial results of the study and shows that the research carried out problematizes the value of care and contributes to knowledge by describing a scale of meanings for this value. At one end of this scale is the value of systemic care that links care with the eco and interdependent nature of life. At the other extreme is the value of hedonistic care, which perpetuates predatory patterns of production and consumption. In the middle, the tension between a corrective and a proactive meaning of care. The key to cultivating sustainable citizenship is redefine school as a community of practice where people learn to take care of themselves by caring the socio-ecological space of which they are part.