Le competenze-di-cittadinanza: sondaggi su Dewey

Abstract

The article exposes the relationship between the current debate on the key-skills of citizenship, as mean and aim of contemporary citizen’s education, and John Dewey’s theories about education and society, bound together by purpose of participatory democracy and active citizenship. Research, scientific attitude and democracy are the most significant and central points of Dewey's thought. These issues and problems are today found in the delineation of the key-skills of citizenship through scholastic subjects as a teaching/learning practice.