Abstract

SAROCHAR, Juan Manuel. Comparative study: training for citizenship in the first cycle of Secondary Education in Uruguay and Cataluña. Cuad. Investig. Educ. [online]. 2018, vol.9, n.2, pp.55-68. ISSN 1510-2432.  https://doi.org/10.18861/cied.2018.9.2.2854.

This article presents part of the content of a Doctoral Thesis carried out between the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2018. The contextual subject of the study is education for citizenship in the field of formal education. The overall aim of the research is to compare Uruguay with Catalonia in terms of education processes for citizenship, at the curricular and normative level, in the first cycle of Secondary Education. The study was carried out through the application of the methodology of comparative research, from a qualitative analysis approach. Documents, specifically curricular and normative texts in force at the date of the study in both territories were used as the main sources of information. Interviews to qualified informants were also resorted to. In accordance to the above, the techniques applied for the collection of information were the documentary analysis and interviews. The results obtained show that the dynamics of education for citizenship in either territory are clearly different.

Keywords : comparative study; education for citizenship; secondary education.

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