Teoría de la Educación: Revista Interuniversitaria (Sep 2011)

Democratic Citizenship: European referents

  • María PUIG GUTIÉRREZ,
  • Soledad DOMENE MARTOS,
  • Juan Antonio MORALES LOZANO

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14201/teri.8297
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 2
pp. 85 – 110

Abstract

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Let’s sense beforehand in this article a tour concerning the educational European policies that favors the development of a democratic citizenship. The aim that we chase is to understand the way in which nowadays it is being interpreted and stimulated the Citizenship education from European Union. for it we offer a conceptual delimiting of «Citizenship education» and later, we show an analysis of the principal documents and materials elaborated principally by the Council of Europe that mark the way followed by European Union as for education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC).

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