Research as a strategy for improving school life and the construction of citizenship

Article summarizes the main findings of the investigation "Incidence of school committees coexistence in the formation of democratic and citizenship skills, the case of School Pedro Grau y Arola city of Quibdo" (2016), developed by students MA in Conflict and Peace at the Universidad de Medellin, which from gathering information on coexistence in literature sources and the targeted educational community, a proposal where it is possible to mainstream classroom research and citizen education is built of the students. The investigative work, qualitative, developed with students from grades 4 and 9, aged between 10 and 16 years from surveys, interviews and development of group work. Finally the work conceived scholarly research as a relevant and much needed strategy that allows students to identify the contexts in which they operate, while developing skills to perform them in a respectful manner, thus giving rise to the component of democratic and civic education.