Education for the citizenship

The identity is conceived more and more in social, cultural and psychological terms. The citizen should be an aware of himself as a community's member with a democratic culture, implicating responsibilities and obligations as rights, and a sense of the very common. This tendency of interpretation of the identity as inclusion in groups of it belongs is much more dynamic than static, should be object of debate and continuous redefinition. A social and political contract exists among the citizen and the political powers in which mutual obligations exist. Without civic component, the appeal to the rights becomes a moralist without impact in the configuration and social participation. The expression "education for the citizenship" contains, like this, an implicit recognition of the tension between ethical formation and civic formation, in the measure in that the civic behaviors implicate the exteriorization of moral values and these implicate the responsibility in acts. The expression " citizenship" contains, therefore, an appeal to the critic capacity and present solemnity-critic in the human reason and that it constitutes the essential of the humanity's inheritance, accordingly Edmund Husserl's opinion.