THE FUTURE IS EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.558542505027

• Palavras-chave: Citizenship Education, Education Policy, Citizens, teachers.

• Keywords: Citizenship Education, Education Policy, Citizens, teachers.

• Abstract:

  Society is currently immersed in a daily change where technology, the media and global challenges are demanding agents of a change in citizenship. Education is the tool for the transformation of future citizenship and democratic governments are aware of this. In Spain, Education for Citizenship began to gain importance since the enactment of the LOE in 2006 and until today there have been confrontations about this area in the educational political sphere. If education is the means of transformation of future citizenship the main objective of the study will be to glimpse if the changes made in this subject in the compulsory secondary education stage of the successive educational laws bring about an evolution of citizenship today. The results of the study confirm that, although there have been some changes in the Spanish educational curriculum, they are not significant and, therefore, the citizenship objectives and goals pursued in 2006 continue to be - for the most part - the same today, making it difficult for citizenship to respond positively to current challenges.