Difficulties and possibilities to educate in citizenship at University

Abstract

The current serious environmental and social problems have generated a scenario of true planetary emergency. The university has the special responsibility to provide analysis of this situation and propose effective and meaningful solutions. That task can be developed through the comprehensive training of professionals capable of contributing to society as active, analytical and purposeful citizens. This reflection paper compiles some results of some investigations with which the difficulties and possibilities within the university to educate future professionals in citizenship were analyzed. In all the investigative exercises, the qualitative approach was implemented and its development methodology was descriptive research. The transversal objective was to maintain and respect the realities and perspectives of the contexts and participants of each exercise. Under the idea of ​​citizenship proposed by García Pérez and De Alba Fernández (2011), I present an analysis from a perspective of synthesis and value reflection, in relation to other significant contributions developed in this context. I propose that citizenship training for students should be proposed and exercised by the university in an interdisciplinary and integrative way, so that it is projected, from the curriculum, in a global and pluralistic training context, and manages to articulate skills, spaces and achievements that schools and societies require today.