Principles of Non-discrimination and Ethics of the Common Good for a Pedagogy of Inclusion

Abstract

This article (with a disciplinary approach from philosophy and pedagogical theory) starts from the problem. What are the contributions and limits of public policies to "fight" discrimination and / or "prevention" of discrimination, in the construction of more inclusive societies? Are minority recognition policies sufficient to build and / or consolidate inclusive societies? To answer these initial questions it is necessary, on the one hand, to explain the contours of the categories discrimination and non-discrimination and, secondly, to examine the belief in the fact that education in the awareness of discrimination and acceptance of diversity, necessarily lead to practices of non-discrimination.

Then we will show, not only from a political or pedagogical approach, but from the ethical (ethics of the common good) to what extent non-discrimination must be observed and understood as an act of civic action that benefits the whole society and not only as an act of recognition of a minority. The Ethics of the common good win in the construction of practices of inclusion and sorority of diversity. Thinking non-discrimination from an ethical approach contributes to the consolidation of the pedagogical processes of diversity treatment, under way from the public policies of some states such as Colombia.

Keywords: Ethics of the common good, Pedagogy, Inclusion, Diversity, Discrimination