Citizenship: Learning a Way of Life
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Citizenship, democracy, participation, globalization, exclusion (Source, UNESCO Thesaurus).Abstract
Objective: This study offers a historical overview of the classical and modern models and approaches to citizenship in an effort to clarify its origin, development, deeper meaning and validity.
Methodology: Based on a review of the different theoretical approaches to citizenship, its evolution, transformations and implications are traced in comparison to the overriding debates and questions surrounding citizenship in today's context.
Findings: The study indicates contemporary citizenship is very different from classical citizenship, not only with respect to entitlements and rights, but also as a manifestation of inequality, social crisis and the emergence of other interests that govern modern societies, especially economic interests.
A citizen is a political being, with a social and moral dimension. This suggests the formation of citizenship is not the rote learning of rules (judicial, legal and political), but the actual realization of a way of life and coexistence among human beings in society.
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