Citizenship education in secondary school. Contributions to its didactics

Abstract

Citizen formation as a transversal content has been and continues to be the matter of interest and debate, in Argentina and at an international level. The approaches of the researches are varied, although their study is rarely faced from a didactic perspective that starts from the analysis of the proposals actually developed in school classes. Our research work (“Formación para la ciudadanía y la convivencia: saberes en juego” UBACyT, Programación 2016) proposes the analysis of citizen formation in secondary school from an analytical didactic, with group and institutional focus, of the tasks generated within different subjects. From the comparative analysis of the classes that have integrated the corpus of the research emerged some interesting ideas that could contribute to the thought about the ways of facing citizenship formation as a transversal content in the Argentine secondary school. After developing some theoretical discussions and some data of the investigation, I synthesize the main features that arise from the comparative analysis of the classes. Then, I address some developments on the didactics of citizenship as a transversal content that I hope contribute to the construction of a didactic from this area.