Human rights in syllabus of citizenship education (civics)

  • Abraham Magendzo Kolstrein Universidad Hebrea Jerusalén-Israel
  • Jorge Pavez Bravo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/praxiseducativa-2016-200102

Keywords:

citizenship, human rights, curricular matrix, Latin America

Abstract

This article tries to analyze the presence of Human Rights in the syllabus of Citizenship Education (Civics) of some Latin American countries. Thus, in this way, it detects the conceptions of citizen and citizenship supported; it reveals the rights the curriculum places emphasis on, and identifies the relationships between Human Rights and some citizenship categories which are essential as equality and personality development, freedom, democracy, justice and social protection, national identity and diversity respect, coexistence and international interdependence, peace valuation and the instruments to solve conflicts, security and protection of the environment. With this aim, the theory is related to the relationship between citizenship and human rights and how this relation is expressed in the curricular area. In second place, a “Matrix of Citizenship Categories” is applied to the curriculum guidelines to determine, in this way, convergences and divergences and mainly, to detect the tendencies that are observed in the treatment of Human Rights in the syllabus. Finally, the text points some suggestions about new aims of citizens training looking at the future, where Human Rights take a central place.

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Author Biographies

Abraham Magendzo Kolstrein, Universidad Hebrea Jerusalén-Israel

Profesor de Estado Universidad de Chile. Master en Educación e Historia Universidad Hebrea Jerusalén-Israel; Doctor en Educación Universidad de California -Los Ángeles- California USA. (UCLA); Post- doctorado en Currículum Instituto de Educación Universidad de Londres, Inglaterra. Director Académico del Doctorado en Educación y Coordinador Cátedra UNESCO en Educación en Derechos Humanos, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano; Investigador Programa Interdisciplinario de Educación en Educación (PIIE)

Jorge Pavez Bravo

Diplomado en Humanidades Clásicas, Licenciado en Filosofía, Magister en Educación. Ha sido consultor para el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, en países de América Latina y África Occidental, en el área de Recursos Humanos. Miembro de la Cátedra Unesco de Educación en Derechos Humanos. Co-autor de Manual de Educación en DDHH

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Published

2016-04-17

How to Cite

Magendzo Kolstrein, A., & Pavez Bravo, J. (2016). Human rights in syllabus of citizenship education (civics). Praxis Educativa, 20(1), 13–27. https://doi.org/10.19137/praxiseducativa-2016-200102

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Vol. 20 No. 1 (2016): enero-abril

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