Conference:
ECER 2008
Format:
Symposium Paper
Session Information
07 SES 08B, Citizenship Education Across Europe: Unveiling the Tensions in Current Debates and Practices
Symposium
Time:
2008-09-12
08:30-10:00
Room:
B1 113
Chair:
Isabel Menezes
Contribution
The role of education for citizenship promotion has been an issue since the transition for
democracy in Portugal in the mid‐seventies. However, fears of ideological inculcation
derived from the authoritarian past have always been present, with a clear tension between
those advocating a vision of citizenship education as an emancipatory project and those
emphasising a more conservative approach; additionally, there was also an intense
discussion between the role of knowledge, competences and action in the organization of
citizenship education in the curricula. Our paper analyses the evolutions in the curricular
framing of citizenship education in basic education and discusses how a political perspective
is apparently missing from the current practices, based on a series of focus groups interviews
with teachers that discuss their views and experiences in the implementation of citizenship
education.
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