The Construction Of Citizenship In Initial Teacher Training Of Early Childhood Education

The severe social and environmental problems in our world demand a model of education for a global, participative and critical citizenship. This requires training future teachers as educators in citizenship, developing awareness in relation to these problems and attitudes of social commitment, with a teaching model that favors the construction of this model of citizenship in their future students. On this basis, a qualitative research has been developed, through group interviews, which analyses the process of construction of citizenship in students of the degree of Early Childhood Education Teacher at the University of Seville, within the framework of a subject on education for citizenship. The results show an evolution of the conception of citizenship in students towards a more participative model linked to social commitment. An important factor in this evolution has been the teaching model applied by the university teacher.