Review article

CIVIC EDUCATION IN THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Vjeran Katunarić ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Abstract

There is an ongoing renewal of interest in civic education (CE) in many developed countries with democratic constitutions. In this regard, school is viewed, and CE in particular, as a key element in the process of political socialization of a democratic citizen. In its fi rst part this paper gives an overview of the policies and state-of-the-art of CE in the EU countries. In the second part, it refers to results of a research project in Croatia, which focuses on a comparative analysis of national curricula in compulsory education in eleven European countries. Furthermore, it discusses the questionable impact of CE on pupils. In its third and closing part, in addition to summarizing the established facts on policies and curricular aspects of CE, the author refl ects on the importance of extra-curricular aspects of CE and on the relationships between CE and history teaching in view of the emergence of a contemporary multicultural Europe.

Keywords

Civic education; curricula; Europe; the impact of civic education; linkage to history teaching

Hrčak ID:

40815

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/40815

Publication date:

23.6.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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