Citizenship Education

Ikasgai hau "Faculty of Behavioral Science"n hartu nuen eta majisteritzako ikasgai bat litzateke. Ikasgasgaiari buruzko informazio gehiago hemen.

Zer da Citizenship Education? Nola itzuli euskarara? Nire zalantzak dauzkat, baina ez itzulpenarengatik, kontzeptuarengatik baino: Hiritarrentzako hezkuntza, hiritarrek egindako hezkuntza, hiritarrei buruz egindako hezkuntza...

Egia esan, hain da kontzeptu zabala ze, ez dagoela erantzun zuzenik. Egia esan, niretzako kontzeptu erabat berria da eta ez dakit oso ondo ulertu dudan. Baina saiatuko naiz ondorengo lerroetan pixkat azaltzen nondik nora doan eta zeintzuk helburu dituen.

• Citizenship is a conscious and informed balance between personal rights and social responsabilities.
• Citizenship Education accross the countries of Europe aims to equip young people with the values and dispositions, key concepts, knowledge and understanding, skills and aptitudes needed to become citizens within a democratic society.
  
• Citizenship Education stress personal and social outcomes rather than academic or vocational qualifications.
• It's very important the students to be active in the teaching-learning process and not only passives.
  
• Change in teaching is required in order to achieve the empowerment of students and thus the entitlement at 3 levels: European or Global, Local and Personal.
  
• Students become active members of society, so they move from the relationship between the individual and government.
• Teacher's challenge: to reasure students but also provoke questions.
• Contradiction: in the democratic society the curriculum is imposed--> the sistem is totalitarian rather than democratic.

3 different ways for students to reach the Citizenship learning:

1) Within the formal curriculum:

• As a separate subject: advantage: more dedication; disadvantage: no time for this topic in schools time-table.
• As a theme in an integrated course of Personal and Social Education.
• As a cross-curricualr theme integrated as a appropiate into exiting curriculums such as History and Geograpy.
  

2) The wider curruculum and extra curricula activities:

• Work experience (UK, Finland)
• Transition year (Ireland)
• Community involment (other countries)

3) Democratic participation in school decision-making processes.

There're also 3 ways of approaching citizenship:

• A transmission approach: focus on the knowledge content of CE (instructional style).
• A process approach: focus the context of schooling (flexible program) --> the most appropriate for adult teachers.
• Transformational professional approach.

Ikusten duzuen bezala, oso gai zabala eta niretzako (eta nik uste gu guztiontzako) berria dela. Izan ere, gizarte demokratiko batean bizitzeko balioak erakusteaz arduratzen da. Baina hemen demokraziari buruz beste idei edo kontzeptu bat daukate, eta horrek ere harritu egin nau.

Hurrengo batean honetaz luzeago eta sakonago hitz egingo dut, baina azken finean demokrazia parte hartze publikotzat hartzen dute, eta ez soilik elementu formaltzat. Hala ere, behar bada gehien harritu nauena benetan praktikara eramaten dutela da, alegia, ez direla hitz soiletan gelditzen.

Oso gai interesgarria dela deritzot.