Active citizenship in the classroom: Mission impossible?

Autores/as

  • Susana Gonçalves Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra and Research Center in Education of the University of Lisbon
  • Hugo Verkest University College VIVES, Teacher Training College campus Torhout

Palabras clave:

Citizenship Education, democratic Learning, personal and social development, active citizenship, classroom.

Resumen

Focusing on the relation between Education in general and Citizenship Education in particular some
key questions come to the surface: Which kind of knowledge, skills and attitudes must be promoted?
How can we avoid a dualistic approach? How can we establish bridges between reason and emotion,
personal and social development? Are cooperative learning in the classroom and a multi - minded
school policy strong pillars to build the bridge over trouble water?
Once the conceptual background is established, we’ll present an enquiry conducted with a group of
BA students who have been asked what are their ideas regarding work, character, interpersonal
relations, values and mindsets. This will help us to recommend a number of pedagogical ideas to
encourage students' active citizenship in a global world

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Publicado

2013-12-01