Citizenship Education of the second year of Childhood Education textbooks

Abstract

Citizenship education is a transformative opportunity for the triple planetary crisis: ecological, socio-environmental and civic. The aim of this study has been to find out its approach in textbooks as main curricular material. For this purpose, two representative publishers were considered in Seville children's classrooms. Specifically, content analysis was applied based on a designed script. The results showed the educational maladjustment to the natural and social reality, as well as the inattention to the right of active participation. The individualized and passive work that emerges from the “flashcard culture” moves away from knowledge and relationship with the environment. In this sense, the analysis of the curricular materials reflects the need to rethink education at any level of concretion. This study invites critical reflection on the value of citizenship education since childhood.