The subject citizenship education: a way for comprehensive training in primary school

Abstract

The Primary Education curriculum includes, in the III Improvement of the National Education System, two subjects whose fundamental objective is to contribute to the comprehensive training of these students; these are The World We Live (in the first and second cycle) and Citizen Education (in the third cycle), which respond to the demands of a social project  whose essence includes love and respect for the family, the guarantee of achieving social justice for all, understanding the meaning of the defense of the homeland; care and respect for social and personal property, knowing the rights and duties of workers, the development of moral qualities; respect and compliance with the laws and legal norms that regulate coexistence in our socialist society ; as well as aspects related to national and local history. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate how the teaching-learning process of the Citizen Education subject in fifth and sixth grade can contribute to the compressive training of primary students.