Challenges for the Citizen Education in Chile: Opportunities and Limitations Analysis in the Developing of an Education for Global Citizenship within the New Curriculum Bases for Junior and Senior Years

Abstract

The complex socio-political scenario that Chile has experienced in recent years highlights the importance of citizenship education in schools. From the public policy area, the educational purposes of citizenship have been progressively expanded in the curricular frameworks, however, these have not yet incorporated the Global Citizenship approach, a perspective that has become fundamental to educate students in a globalized, complex and diverse context. The following research determines -through an exploratory and emergent study- the opportunities and limitations to shape citizenship from the perspective of Education for Global Citizenship in the guidelines of the New Curricular Bases for the 11th and 12th grades, issued in 2019, from the content analysis of the curricular documents. The main results showed that the proposal does not explicitly consider global citizenship, leaving it to the teacher"s criterion to incorporate this approach based on potential content and global issues. This highlights the relevance for teachers to have not only initial but also permanent training that allows them to adequately prepare the task of forming citizenship from different perspectives at schools.