Social education and civic skills to combat hate speech
Reflecting on the deconstruction of globalized and capitalist societies that remain mired in violent and discriminatory realities is a task we, as education professionals, must not forget. Rethinking the education of the future means improving all educational practices that affect not only academic life, but also social, cultural, educational, and political spheres. Universities are privileged spaces for reflecting on global problems that, consequently, affect community development, and where more specific training in education for global citizenship should be fostered. Hate speech, in its multitude of forms (racist, xenophobic, sexist, misogynistic, etc.), flows through social media, invading rights, freedoms, principles, and values protected by Human Rights. Therefore, we must train future educators as individuals committed to the values of equality, inclusion, and social justice, with a human rights approach rooted in a clearly antifascist pedagogy (Díez-Gutiérrez, 2022). Herein lies the implication of social education as a pedagogical profession and a right for citizenship, with the fulfillment of ethical principles such as equality, justice and democratic awareness to generate transformation, development and socio-educational promotion in people and groups from very diverse contexts (State Association of Social Education ASEDES, 2007).
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