Voices in dialogue: Exploring truth and post-truth in school education
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Critical literacy, Truth, Post-truth, Argumentation, Dialogic teaching
Abstract
This reflective article analyzes a pedagogical experience aimed at addressing truth and post-truth in the school context, with post-truth understood as the circulation of discourses that prioritize emotion, group belonging, or virality over the verification of information. Objective. To reflect on the potential of critical literacy for the construction of criteria regarding truth and post-truth in the classroom.Methodology. This study was conducted from a qualitative perspective, employing a narrative research design. This approach allowed for an in-depth understanding of the meanings constructed by participants in relation to the pedagogical experience “Superheroes of Truth”, conceived as an educational proposal mediated by dialogue and the collective, critical construction of truth. Results. The “Superheroes of Truth” pedagogical experience shows that students’ understanding of truth and post-truth was configured as a collective process, mediated by dialogue and the exchange of experiences. Through dialogical spaces, participants recognized that both concepts do not exist as fixed or finalized content, but rather as social constructions that emerge from the convergence of multiple perspectives and viewpoints. Conclusions. Addressing truth and post-truth in the school context requires a sustained pedagogical culture of dialogue and verification, in which critical literacy is consolidated as a daily practice for reading the world and strengthening school coexistence.
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Diana Marcela López Llorente, Universidad Antonio Nariño Bogotá, Colombia
Candidata a Doctoranda en Educación de la Universidad Antonio Nariño, Magíster en Educación de la Universidad Iberoamericana de Puerto Rico, Licenciada en Educación Básica con énfasis en Humanidades Español-Inglés de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Docente de Comunicación y Lectura Crítica Colegio La Felicidad IED.
Marisella Buitrago Ramírez, Universidad Antonio Nariño Bogotá, Colombia
Doctora en la Línea de investigación Civilizaciones, culturas, literaturas y sociedades. Estudios Romanos Españoles en Sorbonne Université. Magistra en Educación con énfasis en Sistemas Didácticos del Lenguaje de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Licenciada en Español y Lenguas Extranjeras en la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y profesora titular e investigadora educativa de la Universidad Antonio Nariño.