Education on Citizenship and Human Rights: A Project for Training the Human Being of Tomorrow

This article aimed to integrate citizenship culture and human rights as pedagogy into education and to consolidate that culture through global education while farming all of this within a social, cultural and rational space. However, this aim won’t be realized unless an education philosophy is adopted that is based on lively curricula and programs aiming at consolidating the values of citizenship, civic behavior and human rights, a philosophy that has positive impact on the individual and on society.

This topic was treated by responding to these questions: How is the system of values related to education? How does education on citizenship values and human rights values contribute to the development of today’s learner and to his/her qualification to become tomorrow’s citizen?

Would the adoption of these values based education into the educational curricula and programs suffice to judge the learner’s behavior as being straight and correct enough to qualify him/her to be the good citizen of the future? Or are there other fundamental additional procedures than the adopted education philosophy?

The paper concluded with defining the aspects of the education on citizenship and human rights expressed in the ability of individuals to have confidence in their identity and to work for peace and human rights in their society through the following: shouldering social responsibility, cooperate for the sake of solving problems, respect differences among people and support solidarity and justice.