Presente y futuro de la educación para la ciudadanía en Europa

Abstract

For over two decades, civic movements have emerged strongly in most of the Western demo-cracies. Governments have been attempting to implement the various recommendations of the Council of Europe (2002; 2010a). The introduction of educational reforms and the ongoing development of curricula have provided an opportunity to include civic education in the national curriculum of most of the European countries (Naval, Print & Veldhuis, 2002). Currently citizenship education is considered as one way to help young people to acquire the social and citizenship competencies required for the future life (Altarejos y Naval, 2005; Bolívar, 2007; Pérez Juste, 2007; Pérez Serrano, 2008). This paper aims to display, given the impulse that civic education is getting internationally, the possible future tendencies in this research area. Additionally, we can not ignore that young people also go through with their experience of citizenship in digital spaces. In a modern society the media literacy processes may promote the social participation and the promotion of social and civic competences (Kubey, 2003; Guo-Ming, 2007; Gonzálvez, 2012).