Citizenship Education from Schools
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چکیده
The characteristics of current society and the interest about citizenship education in the context of lifelong learning are essential for a study that aims to describe and understand the development of social and civic competence in the educational field. A Delphi study can make a proposal in which the social and civic competence is composed of 89 items organised into five areas: knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and behaviours. In the same way, the study of a school in Seville discovers didactic strategies and organisational processes that benefit the development of the various components of this competence.
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