objectives: the awareness of citizens leads to access to their rights. in addition to natural rights (that are noted in many investigations) people have rights that are called social rights. this survey investigates some rights that are related to the responsibilities and missions of urban management. with revising of the notion of active citizenship, citizens need purposive participation. so a...

How might European higher education contribute to the promotion and development of European citizenship? In this article, the author addresses this question through a critical discussion of the notions of ‘active citizenship’ and ‘civic competence’, which play a central role in current policy and research on the role of education in the development of European citizenship. The author argues tha...

Research on the development of citizenship has been reinvigorated by considering adolescents as participants actively engaged in, and interacting with, family, peers, teachers, and the media. This contrasts with earlier top-down transmission models that saw adolescents as passive recipients of information from parents and teachers. Active citizenship is now seen as a largely indirect result of ...

The project Active LearTling for Active Citktnship formed part of recent civil renewal policy and contributed to the development of ideas along with action on the ground. Whilst that practice will be explored in other chapters, this chapter will examine the underlying principles. It is written by the author of the original report submitted to the Home Office in 2004, who subsequently helped ini...

In this article two distinct but related questions are addressed. First, can the politics of ecology be articulated in terms of citizenship? An affirmative answer is given to this question, and an outline of ‘ecological citizenship’ is presented. This gives rise to the second question: how does ecological citizenship affect the idea of citizenship itself? This question is answered through the a...