Between utopia and dystopia: The main route of citizenship education

Journal title RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Author/s Filippo Bignami
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/1
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 73-92 File size 262 KB
DOI 10.3280/RIP2017-001004
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The concept of citizenship is nowadays debated and under tension, often called not appropriately in a sense of merely analytical-reconstructive sense, or meaning a legal status. It goes rather beyond, having a specific meaning of nexus between individuals and society and identifies the political, social, economic and cultural characteristics of such a nexus, which is identified in specific dimensions, which are inherent theoretical aspects (coming from political and social studies) and practical aspects (legal and administrative). In the present times, characterized by jarring social, cultural, economic and political divergences, the concept of citizenship can be an equilibrium point either as individual gaining of awareness on the practical side, or as an educational base, representing not one but "the" true cross-cutting subject theoretically established.

Keywords: Citizenship, citizenship education, participation, responsibility, inequalities and population.

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Filippo Bignami, Tra utopia e distopia: la via maestra dell’educazione alla cittadinanza in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA " 1/2017, pp 73-92, DOI: 10.3280/RIP2017-001004