Ciudadanía y humanidadla educación en el disenso
ISSN: 1130-3743
Year of publication: 2008
Issue: 20
Pages: 25-44
Type: Article
More publications in: Teoría de la educación
Abstract
The new subject of education for citizenship includes ample references to human rights. This article discusses the relation between education for exercising citizenship and education in human rights. This article raises the positive and negative aspects of the relation between the two. We propose to differentiate civic education from moral education; education in dissensus is defended as the most significant contribution of human rights and suggests the advisability of elaborating an educational theory of human rights that will help us to devise a concept of education closer to the values of human rights. Finally, the need to educate students in the idea of human dignity is defended.