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    STUDIA PSYCHOLOGIA-PAEDAGOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2009  
         
  Article:   L’ÉDUCATION POUR LA CITOYENNETÉ DÉMOCRATIQUE ET LA PHILOSOPHIE DU MULTICULTURALISME.

Authors:  ION ALBULESCU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:   The democratic citizenship is related to the context, to the environment where the individual lives and exercises his legal rights. In the contemporary world, there are many politic, economic, social and cultural phenomenons which develop depending on certain relation systems, which do not take into account the borders, especially the politic and administrative ones. The contexts are the ones where the individual exercises his citizen status. Without taking them into account, the education for democratic citizenship loses its plain significance and its applicability. For a better understanding of the education for democratic citizenship and of what it is supposed to do, we have to circumscribe it to a well defined set of social and cultural contexts. The opening to other cultures represents one of the possible orientations of the education for democratic citizenship. School is a proper place for the cultural harmonisation requested by the perspective of constructing a European unitary space and also by the phenomenon of globalization of the economy, technology and information. Therefore, the students must develop their capacity of recognizing various cultural codes, of communicating in an intercultural context, of shaping their own identity without becoming victims of several stereotypes and prejudices, of understanding the peculiarities of the everyday life in various countries. That is why we are approaching the multicultural context of achieving education for democratic citizenship in this work.

Keywords: education, multiculturalism, democratic citizenship.
 
         
     
         
         
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