The Education for citizenship and human rights: A view from the Spanish constitutional system

• Autor: Delgado Rojas, Jesús Ignacio
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Ricardo Palma
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Ricardo Palma
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:oai.revistas.urp.edu.pe:article/3688
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.urp.edu.pe/index.php/Inkarri/article/view/3688
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Citizenship Education; human rights; democracy; dignity; conscientious objection; Educación para la Ciudadanía; derechos humanos; democracia; dignidad; objeción de conciencia

Education for Citizenship and Human Rights is the civic-moral formation of an educational system. It is a subject, with contents and objectives, that has received praise and criticism, which I will try to review here, and its value and importance for democratic coexistence is unquestionable. In this paper, from a secular perspective, I analyze the subject, its place in the constitutional system of the rule of law, both the perspectives and the challenges it poses to the educational model. The deliberative democracies must train active and critical citizens to exercise their rights, and fulfill their responsibilities. In addition, citizenship education strengthens people’s commitment to the political life of their society, regenerates confidence in institutions, and guarantees democratic participation for all under conditions of equality and respect.