Educación y ciudadanía


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Nueva ciudadanía y educación


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¿Cuáles son los objetivos de la educación cívica en una sociedad democrática? ¿Qué contenidos debería abarcar? ¿Qué son realmente la identidad y la competencia cívica? ¿Cómo se puede favorecer la formación de ciudadanos competentes y proactivos? Estas son algunas de las preguntas clave que aborda Helen Haste en Nueva ciudadanía y educación. En los últimos años se observa en todo el mundo un creciente interés por el compromiso cívico de la juventud. Esto incluye el estudio no solo de cuestiones como por qué votan –o no– los jóvenes, sino también en qué tipo de acciones cívicas formales o informales participan; qué motivaciones tienen para hacerlo; qué causas los mueven a la acción o al desinterés y qué los despoja de su empoderamiento, entre otras. Helen Haste aborda aquí el papel de la cultura en el desarrollo humano, la importancia de la emoción, y cómo la construcción de futuros posibles se basa en creencias sobre el presente. Ofrece un modo renovado de concebir el ámbito de lo cívico, junto con nuevas estrategias de investigación que promueven su comprensión y análisis. Vivimos un tiempo de turbulencia política y de conflictividad que desestabilizan los precarios equilibrios de numerosos países. Al mismo tiempo, observamos un crecimiento de programas y organizaciones que tienden puentes entre grupos, ideologías e identidades. En esa tensión, Nueva ciudadanía y educación es una obra necesaria. Tal como afirma su autora, "el presente es un momento apasionante para actuar en este campo".










Ciudadanía, poder y educación


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Ecología, territorio, género, multiculturalismo, globalización, democracia y ciudadanía son conceptos de un discurso que compromete a la escuela con la emancipación del sujeto a través del saber.




Handbook of Research on Citizenship and Heritage Education


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Cultural competence in education promotes civic engagement among students. Providing students with educational opportunities to understand various cultural and political perspectives allows for higher cultural competence and a greater understanding of civic engagement for those students. The Handbook of Research on Citizenship and Heritage Education is a critical scholarly book that provides relevant and current research on citizenship and heritage education aimed at promoting active participation and the transformation of society. Readers will come to understand the role of heritage as a symbolic identity source that facilitates the understanding of the present and the past, highlighting the value of teaching. Additionally, it offers a source for the design of didactic proposals that promote active participation and the critical conservation of heritage. Featuring a range of topics such as educational policy, curriculum design, and political science, this book is ideal for educators, academicians, administrators, political scientists, policymakers, researchers, and students.







Comparative Education: Views from Latin America


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Although in Latin America there are no educational programs specialized in comparative education, as there are in some European, Oriental and North American universities, there are scholars who cultivate this field. With the production of this book, the authors -most of them affiliated to member organizations of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies- are walking towards a Latin American network of researchers with an interest in establishing a dialogue with non-Spanish speaking colleagues from the rest of the world. This is the reason of our effort in writing most of the chapters in English. Comparative education, as all disciplinary fields, has evolved with different ways of thinking, approaching and constructing its objects of research and analysis, which are nurtured by different epistemological traditions living together in our times, enriching and bringing complexities. From Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Mexico, the authors of the book pose questions, historical descriptions, reflections, discussions and cases to set forth their views.





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Civics and Citizenship


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The book is organized around four sections. The first section is an introduction to the problem of defining the scope and foundations of the development of moral personality and social engagement, in particular, the development of civic and ethical attitudes and prosocial behavior. The second section presents a comparative analysis of education policies in Mexico, Chile and Colombia, in particular the way the curricula of civic and citizenship education is designed and implemented. The section also describes and analyzes the way this subject is taught in the classrooms of the primary, secondary and high school levels in the three countries. The third section includes the results of research projects in Civics and Citizenship Education conducted with different theoretical and methodological models of analysis. This last section includes some of the best practices of Civic Education that have been developed in Mexico, Colombia, and Chile.