The text was presented at a meeting of policy papers of the Faculty of
Humanities of the University of Santiago on May 31, 2017, in the framework of
the discussion on the new curricular bases and new plans and programs and the
inclusion of the subject of citizenship training as a compulsory subject for the
entire school system. After almost two decades of eliminating the subject of civic
education from school education and applying a model disseminated throughout
all areas of education, one of the explanatory hypotheses for the institutional and
democratic participation crisis was the lack of education on citizenship and
politics. This was exacerbated by the emergence of cases of political corruption
involving a wide spectrum of actors. The central proposal is that the core of the
subject should be in philosophy, since it takes charge of questioning power
instead of teaching legal or institutional issues. The assumption behind this is
that the contradictions inherent in the Chilean democratic model are at a point of no return that will not be processed within the framework of an understanding of
the subject in the traditional sense.
Keywords:
Citizenship, Democracy, Politics, Philosophy of education, New forms of participation.
Sobarzo Morales, M. (2019). PHILOSOPHY, SCHOOL AND DEMOCRACY HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT CITIZENSHIP LEARNING TODAY?. Revista Enfoques Educacionales, 16(2), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7279.2019.66519
