Identity and Recognition: an approach from the bioecological and intersectional approach

Abstract

The present work has as a transversal axis the theme/problem of identity construction and recognition. Given the epistemological, ethical and political dimensions involved in the process of identity construction and recognition, firstly, Urie Bronfrenbrenner’s bioecological approach is presented followed by Kimberlé Crenshaw’s intersectional approach. Under the conviction that it is increasingly necessary to explore approaches and conceptual frameworks in order to share a theoretical and methodological support to address and elucidate, in this case, the process of identity construction, what is intended is that both approaches help us to visualize the complexity of the “problematic presentiality of the subject of identity” in and from the sociocultural dynamics, from which some of the relevant conceptions on identity and recognition are developed in authors such as Larraín, Honneth and Taylor. Finally, from these conceptions, some guidelines are proposed that can be applied in a specific educational environment such as the School Councils, instances demanded by law in their constitution for every educational community in Chile and that constitute an opportunity and propitious space to generate and put into practice the recognition of the particular identities of all the strata and actors of an educational community.