시민교육의 확장을 위한 평생교육의 의의: 지역사회기반 시민교육을 중심으로

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Citizenship Education is increasingly important as it offers educational solution against the individualization and the crisis of democracy in the modern society. Social changes such as globalization and localization raise the need of expansion of citizenship education. In this context, this study examined the concept of citizen, citizenship, citizenship education respectively, described the necessity of expansion of citizenship education, and explored the role of lifelong education for the expansion of citizenship education. The community-based citizenship education as an example of expanded citizenship educations was examined. The citizenship education needs to expand the learners into all citizens, the concept of space into post-national citizenship, the contents into something considered with daily life and the method of citizenship education into various ways. To expand the citizenship education, the lifelong learning has to play a key role as one of the goals of lifelong learning is to build learning society based on democracy thorough citizenship education and the philosophy of lifelong learning is aligned with the idea of citizenship education. The community-based citizenship education as one of expanded citizenship educations involves all citizen-learners living in the local community and builds the local citizenship, with its contents related to local life and method of citizenship education using local resources. Further study needs to be done for the citizenship education in the perspective of lifelong education, citizenship learning and citizenship education, and practice of expanded citizenship education.

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