Educating for active citizenship and sustainable development

Abstract

In this essay the question of how to reconcile active citizenship and sustainable development will be addressed. In particular, it is a question of developing in the first part of the article a reflection on the education of the citizen, in the second part the necessary conditions for the school to be able to contribute to the formation of the citizen will be addressed and finally the third part will be dedicated to demonstrating how and why the citizen education must also be carried out outside of school, in social life, in acting for sustainable development.

Keywords

• educating
• citizenship
• sustainable development