Spain : Citizenship education or civic education? A controversial issue in Spain

Abstract: Purpose: The aim of this country report is to offer an overview of civic and citizenship education in Spain. Approach: The report analyses the Spanish curriculum and the current legislative framework, examining the way social and civic competences are integrated in both primary and secondary education. Additionally, the paper also examines the latest educational reform, establishing a comparison between how citizenship education was addressed in the curriculum until 2013 and the way a cross-curricular approach has been adopted since then. Findings: The paper has been able to establish a clear difference between two political and educational conceptions. On one hand, from 2006 to 2013, the Spanish government introduced “Citizenship and Human Rights Education” as a core subject linked to a broader approach to traditional civic education. After the 2013 reform, the new government favoured instead a cross-curricular orientation that avoided references to the idea of citizenship and.... https://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/1591

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Spain ; volume:19 ; number:1 ; day:24 ; month:07 ; year:2019 ; Journal of social science education ; 19, Heft 1 (24.07.2019)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: María Sánchez-Agustí ; Diego Miguel-Revilla

Further information

• DOI: 10.4119/jsse-1591
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020062918371485086352
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.