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This study highlighted the educators understanding of their role, the priorities that they deemed important and the practices they employed to promote in their learners the values and virtues fit for citizens of a democratic society.

Con ocasión de la decisión del gobierno español de incorporar la asignatura Educación para la Ciudadanía y Derechos Humanos (EpC) al currículo oficial de la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (ESO), para ser desarrollada a partir del año escolar 2007-2008, la sociedad española vivió en el año previo a su implementación (2006) un intenso debate social en relación a dicha decisión. Tal debate social estuvo representado en la presencia de dos grupos con posiciones claramente diferenciadas frente a la asignatura: un grupo de apoyo y un grupo de rechazo a la EpC. Con la clara convicción de que es necesario un proceso educativo orientado la formación de los más jóvenes en los valores esenciales a la ciudadanía democrática hemos realizado la presente investigación titulada: La Educación para la Ciudadanía y Derechos Humanos: una asignatura orientada a favorecer la convivencia. El objetivo fundamental de la investigación consistió en: Determinar el papel de los contenidos, objetivos y competencias establecidos en el currículo de la asignatura Educación para la Ciudadanía y Derechos Humanos, en relación con la conformación de comportamientos y actitudes dirigidos a favorecer la convivencia ciudadana en el aula y fuera de ella. En tal propósito, como primera fase, se realizó una investigación teórica y documental principalmente en relación a los postulados legales y curriculares establecidos en la Constitución española, La Ley Orgánica de Educación española, el Real Decreto 1513 y 1631 (por los que se establecen las enseñanzas mínimas para la Educación primaria y para la ESO respectivamente) y la Orden 2220 (por la que se establece el currículo y se regula la ordenación de la ESO). La segunda fase de la investigación consistió en un trabajo de campo, usando una metodología cualitativa, propia de las ciencias humanas: hemos hecho etnografía en el aula, mediante la técnica de la observación no participante. El método elegido ha pretendido entender los fenómenos observados desde la perspectiva particular de los grupos y personas observados e intentar acercarnos a la comprensión de los motivos y creencias que están detrás de sus acciones. La observación no participante se realizó en dos Institutos de Educación Secundaria de Barcelona, en el primer y segundo año de implementación de la asignatura EpC. De las observaciones realizadas pudimos obtener los corpus necesarios, (esencialmente mediante el uso de instrumentos de recogida de datos como las notas de campo y las entrevistas y el análisis de documentos) que nos han permitido elaborar la descripción, el análisis y la interpretación de las experiencias observadas mediante el uso de categorías y sub-categorías surgidas de los mismos datos o establecidas por la investigadora para tratar de responder a algunos aspectos esenciales de la investigación. La especulación teórica realizada sobre los datos obtenidos, en directa relación con la investigación teórico conceptual de la primera fase, nos ha llevado a concluir que efectivamente hoy más que nunca se requiere un proceso educativo orientado a la conformación de un sistema de valores comunes en el cual las personas se vean identificadas y aprendan a actuar en consonancia con los mismos. Pero lograrlo requiere del compromiso y la responsabilidad de todas las personas e instituciones de la sociedad, porque como reza el adagio africano “para educar un niño es necesaria toda la tribu”. / "EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AN ORIENTATION COURSE DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE CO-EXISTENCE" As part of our public concern for the coexistence and the formation of the youngest in the core values of democratic citizenship, we have conducted research Education for Citizenship and Human Rights: An orientation course designed to encourage co-existence. The main objective of this research was to determine the role of the content, objectives and competencies established in the curriculum of the subject Education for Citizenship and Human Rights in relation to the structure of behaviors and attitudes aimed at promoting peaceful coexistence in the classroom and beyond. In that order was made, along with documentary research, a fieldwork of applied ethnography in the classroom, from the technique of non-participant observation. The method chosen has sought to understand the observed phenomena from the perspective of particular groups and individuals observed and try to approach the understanding of the motives and beliefs behind their actions. Non-participant observation was conducted in two Secondary Schools in Barcelona in the first and second year of implementation of the subject EpC. From observations we obtain the corpus needed to make the description, analysis and interpretation of the experiences observed through the use of categories and sub-categories emerged from the same data or established by the researcher to try to answer some essential research. We have concluded that implementation of the CPE is essential if training is committed to democratic values of citizenship and responsible members of society today. Achieving this requires the effort and commitment of all personal and institutional.

El título de la tesis refleja el propósito de este estudio: Diagnosticar la situación de la Formación para la Ciudadanía de secundaria en México, desde un modelo de Ciudadanía Democrático e Intercultural. El actual contexto sociopolítico de México, evidencia una ciudadanía que trabaja fuertemente por consolidar su democracia. Sin embargo, la desigualdad social, la poca participación y una falta de reconocimiento a la diversidad cultural y lingüística, que aún persiste en la sociedad mexicana socava sus propios principios democráticos. Bajo este marco, la pregunta que surgió se focalizó en comprender qué está haciendo el Sistema Educativo Mexicano, a través de sus políticas y del curriculum escolar para luchar contra esta situación, y qué es lo que está logrando en su alumnado de secundaria. La elección de este nivel, respondió al hecho de contar con alumnado en una etapa fundamental en la formación de la identidad, elemento fundamental en la Formación para la Ciudadanía, y por ser el colectivo más numeroso del Sistema por estar a punto de comenzar a ejercer sus derechos ciudadanos. Para realizar el diagnóstico se creó un modelo teórico de Formación para la Ciudadanía Democrática e Intercultural, el cual respondía a las necesidades del contexto mexicano. Este modelo se construyó a partir de la revisión de varios modelos de Educación para la Ciudadanía, entre ellos el Modelo de Educación para la Ciudadanía Activa, Responsable, Crítica e Intercultural del GREDI (Grup de Recerca en Educació Intercultural) de la Universidad de Barcelona, del cual se tomaron varios elementos vertebrales. Las principales dimensiones del modelo construido -Concepción de Ciudadanía, Interculturalidad, Sentimiento de Pertenencia, Competencias Ciudadanas y Participación Ciudadana- fueron los parámetros utilizados para analizar el curriculum de Formación para la Ciudadanía en México. Asimismo, dichas dimensiones se operativizaron en un cuestionario para el alumnado de la muestra. El estudio diagnosticó que el curriculum escolar de Formación para la Ciudadanía en México tiene presentes todas las dimensiones del modelo teórico construido. Además, el estudio empírico validó la relación entre todas las dimensiones del modelo teórico. Se identificó también que la presencia del modelo de Formación para la Ciudadanía Democrática e Intercultural podría articular los elementos necesarios para una sólida Formación para la Ciudadanía y por lo tanto se podría aspirar más consistentemente a una convivencia más democrática en México. La investigación cuenta con tres capítulos teóricos. El primero de ellos presenta la Concepción de Ciudadanía por la que apuesta México, el segundo establece los elementos clave que deben estar presentes en la Formación para la Ciudadanía y el tercero desarrolla el modelo de Formación para la Ciudadanía Democrática e Intercultural. Posteriormente, se dedica un capítulo al análisis del curriculum de la Formación para la Ciudadanía en México. El capítulo quinto refleja la metodología empleada y el sexto presenta los resultados obtenidos empíricamente a la luz del análisis curricular. Finalmente se presentan las conclusiones, propuestas de mejora, y los limitantes y prospectiva de la investigación. / The title of the thesis reflects the purpose of this study: Diagnose the situation of the Training for Citizenship in secondary school students in Mexico, from a Democratic and Intercultural Citizenship Model. The current socio-political context of Mexico shows a citizenship that works hard to consolidate its democracy. However social inequality, poor participation and a lack of recognition of cultural and linguistic diversity that still exists in Mexican society undermines its own democratic principles. Under this framework, the research focused on understanding what the Mexican Educational System is doing through its policies and through the school curriculum, to eliminate the situations that hinder , the democratic development of the Mexican republic, and the achievements of its secondary students. The choice of this level was to do with the fact of having students at a critical stage of their identity building process, key element in the Citizenship Education, and also for being the largest collective of the System about to begin to exercise their civil Rights. For doing the diagnose, we established a Democratic and Intercultural Citizenship theoretical Model which respond to the profile and requirements of the Mexican context. This Model was constructed based on the review of several models of Citizenship Education, including the GREDI´s (Intercultural Education Research Group) Active, Responsible, Critic and Intercultural Education Citizenship Model, from the University of Barcelona, which give us many important elements. The main dimensions of the model we built – Citizenship conception, Interculturality, Sense of ownership, Citizenship Competencies and Citizenship participation- were the parameters used to analyze the curriculum of Citizen Education in Mexico. Likewise, these dimensions were used in a questionnaire that we applied to the secondary education students. The diagnosis found that the Mexican Citizenship Education curriculum has all the aspects of our model and the empiric study holds the relations between all these. The research has three theoretical chapters. The first one it is about the Mexican Citizenship conception, the second one established the key elements that must be present in the Citizenship Education and the third one, develops the Democratic and Intercultural Citizenship Education Model. Subsequently, a chapter is devoted to the analysis of curriculum for Citizenship Education in Mexico. The fifth chapter reflects the methodology used and the sixth explain the empirically results. Finally, we present the conclusions, suggestions for improvement, and the constraints and prospects of research.

The aim of this study is to investigate and compare two textbooks used in social studies teaching when it comes to the use of subject concepts. The questions to be answered are: • What subject concepts can be found in each learning material? How many different subject concepts are present and how often are they used? • What is done to explain these subject concepts for the reader? How many of the total amount of subject concepts are explained? The methods used to answer these questions where both quantitative content analysis and qualitative text analysis. The results showed that the two textbooks had some subject concepts in common and other subject concepts that separated the textbooks. Textbook 1 contained a few more subject concepts than textbook 2 but used less times than textbook 2. To explain the subject concepts the textbooks used different methods which in this study have been divided into five categories. The result also showed that both textbooks contained equal amounts of subject concepts that were not explained to the reader.

My dissertation work deals with the project method in civics lessons. The target of this work was to find a place of this method in teaching civics at primary school. The work is divided into two parts. In the first part I focused on the theoretical ground of the project method, its historical development and contemporary conceptions while I even tried to outline the position of civics at primary school. In the second part of the work I deal with possibilities how to organize curriculum of civics according to the project method. Proposals of own projects and own realization of one of the selected project are stated in this part.

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L'être humain est un être social, qui ne peut pas vivre tout seul, mais dans une société basée sur un système de règles, de lois et de coutumes qui doit être respecté par toute personne. Il est difficile, par conséquent, pour toute nation de prospérer sans l’instauration et le respect de lois définissant la relation entre les individus et les institutions, et de surcroît sans clarifier les droits et les devoirs individuels. Il est très important pour chaque citoyen d’acquérir une connaissance du droit et de la culture juridique, notamment en ce qui concerne ses droits et ses devoirs. Il est même nécessaire pour chaque personne de s’initier au droit afin de bien réaliser les conséquences juridiques des actes et des comportements interdits et punissables par la loi de sorte que toute personne puisse les éviter et mieux connaître ses droits. Les méthodes éducatives peuvent jouer un rôle moteur dans l’enseignement des étudiants sur l’importance des lois sur leur construction et sur leur mise en place. Cela permet ainsi de connaître quelques textes juridiques portant sur les droits et les devoirs envers la communauté. Ces méthodes éducatives peuvent donc améliorer la prise de conscience de l’importance du droit et l’importance de le respecter en fonction de la maturité de chacun. Ainsi, la culture juridique semble devenir une exigence pour former un bon citoyen dans une communauté, de sorte que ce citoyen soit habitué à respecter les règles à travers l'enseignement et la formation acquis depuis son enfance et sa jeunesse. Ce dernier doit alors pratiquer toutes ses activités en conformité avec la Constitution et la loi, que ce soit en famille ou à l'école et il doit se soumettre à la société organisée par ces lois dans tous les domaines: sociaux, économiques et politiques... En résumé, l'enseignement du programme d'éducation juridique comme étant une activité d'accompagnement des sciences humaines fait apprendre aux étudiants beaucoup de concepts juridiques grâce à l'intégration de la technologie dans leur programme éducatif annuel. Ce programme devient alors plus efficace et améliore le niveau des élèves par la médiation et la technologie de l'information et la communication numérique intégrée. / The purpose of this study was to focuses on the Educate legal culture and civics to the first and second stages of the Egyptian secondary schools through digital mediations in teaching and integration of information and communication technology (ICT) into curriculum, with the aim of establishing how effective e-learning and integration of ICT can be supported. E-learning was perceived by education stakeholders in Egypt as an effective way to enhance teaching and learning. The researcher designed and produced legal culture program (Application) for Self-learning. The research instruments for the study were also developed; two pre/post achievement tests and legal attitudes test were used to collect data. The sample used in the study consisted of 90 students to form only one sample because there is no approach of the legal culture taught to the same phase. The findings of the post-test highlighted the following points: (A) Digital mediation plays an important role in the educational process as an instructional technology tool, and Human mediation plays an important new role where the role of teachers changed from lecturer to a facilitator, guide and mentor in the educational process. (B) there is a significant difference between the main score of students in the post-test and pre-test in favor of post-test in the achievement and legal attitudes test (D) The estimation of the effect sizes indication of the level of difference between the pre/ post-test scores of the samples revealed that, the effect size was large for all achievement and legal attitudes tests.In conclusions, the legal culture program (the application) provided considerable support for students in the first and second stages of the Egyptian secondary schools and helped them to improve their conceptual understanding in legal concepts, and learn about legal system of the State, in addition know about their Constitutional rights and duties.

Magister Educationis - MEd / This study highlighted the educators understanding of their role, the priorities that they deemed important and the practices they employed to promote in their learners the values and virtues fit for citizens of a democratic society. / South Africa

The diploma thesis consists of a theoretical and a practical part. The first part deals with the theory in the form of a basic and brief introduction into the subject of Islam from the religious and anthropological point of view. Similarly, Czech society's perception of Islam is discussed as well as expert's and general public's estimation of teaching about Islam. Subsequently, the characteristics of stated educational topic and its placement into the broader context of education will be dealt with, the Framework Educational Program will be used as a means of comparison. The teaching of the stated topic and the controversy of it will be specified. In the practical part of the thesis, a qualitative research will be carried out, followed by its interpretation, which will take place with the participation of high school teachers. The diploma thesis will be focused on the identification of various concepts of teaching of this topic, it will attempt to critically view and formulate the recommendation for the current issues of the teaching of Islam, for it is a present topic that should not be omitted within the Citizenship Education. Key words Islam, teaching, grammar school, Basics of Civics and Social Sciences, Framework Education Programme, society