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Challenges of civic education in the XXI century. Implications for the curriculum |
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Written by Francisca Martín Molero
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Postmodern society features demand important changes to current
education in view of the effects of some human activities. Since civic
education is meant to be the key to changing long-established patterns
of social behaviour and since it is this human behaviour responsible
for most of the problems caused not only in the social environment but
in the natural and technological as well some educational theories such
as civic or environmental education, etc, have been studied as measures
to solve these problems in the age of the human rights implementation.
The article examines the state of affairs concerning these educational
theories by reflective analysis with the purpose of finding out, on the
one hand, interelationships between civic, environmental and global
education and, on the other, basic implications for curriculum
innovation at the beginning of the 21st century. Francisca Martín Molero
Key Words: Civic Education, Environmental Education, Educational Rights, Curricular Innovation, Postmodernism in Education.
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