Citizenship educationcitizenship education: to become a democratic thinking, feeling and acting person.
A human being is not born as a citizen. He / She achieves citizenship through education. Formal, non-formal or in-formal education are different and supplementary ways to reach the minimum level of citizenship and to achieve higher levels during the possible / preferable lifelong education process. Due to the disappearance of more or less recognisable patrons, the daily life becomes more complex for a lot of people. These people are forced to make choices all of the time.
For that reason, citizenship education has to help to make these necessary choices, by training youngsters to become critical citizens, who are prepared and capable to think and act constructively in the democratic system, as it functions in the international community.
Citizenship education is to bring together facts and insights in relation to:
- the economical, social and cultural reality
- mechanisms who dictate that reality or lead towards that reality
- political consensus decision making that can be used to interfere in this reality on all levels of the community
- to make people sensitive of values of the democratic system
- to practice the capability to implement these knowledge, insights and value sensitivity in the own life.
citizenship education
A human being is not born as a citizen. He / She achieves citizenship through education. Formal, non-formal or in-formal education are different and supplementary ways to reach the minimum level of citizenship and to achieve higher levels during the possible / preferable lifelong education process. Due to the disappearance of more or less recognisable patrons, the daily life becomes more complex for a lot of people. These people are forced to make choices all of the time.
For that reason, citizenship education has to help to make these necessary choices, by training youngsters to become critical citizens, who are prepared and capable to think and act constructively in the democratic system, as it functions in the international community.
Citizenship education is to bring together facts and insights in relation to:
- the economical, social and cultural reality
- mechanisms who dictate that reality or lead towards that reality
- political consensus decision making that can be used to interfere in this reality on all levels of the community
- to make people sensitive of values of the democratic system
- to practice the capability to implement these knowledge, insights and value sensitivity in the own life.
citizenship, what does it mean to you?
Citizenship is one of these words often used, with a different meaning for different people. There must be a common ground: can we agree some basic content?
Give your comments and let us know what citizenship means to you.
