Democratic Citizenship: European referents

• Main Authors: María PUIG GUTIÉRREZ, Soledad DOMENE MARTOS, Juan Antonio MORALES LOZANO
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2011-09-01
• Series: Teoría de la Educación: Revista Interuniversitaria
• Subjects: educación a lo largo de la vida, educación para la ciudadanía, competencia social y cívica, política educativa europea
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-3743/article/view/8297

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).