Abstract

SIEDE, Isabelino A et al. Ethical and Civic Education. Difficulties during the Curricular Reform in Argentine Patagonia. Folios [online]. 2015, n.41, pp.51-68. ISSN 0123-4870.

What type of ethical and civic education is effectively provided at school? This article analyzes the curricular prescriptions of Ethical and Citizenship Education in primary schools of the Argentine Patagonia, as well as its relations and contradictions with the schoolpractices of moral education It inquires the process of definition of the area in the context of the Educational Reform in the 90s. Also, it pursuits to remake the way it was incorporated in the provincial curriculum design. Throughout focus groups and interviews to teachers from different public and private schools of three towns from de north of Santa Cruz, we analyze the descriptions and expectative of the teachers about their teaching practice in the moral area, as well as the possible causes of the differences and the contradictions between the policies of the curricular statement and educational proposals offered at school.

Keywords : Ethics citizenship education; moral education; curriculum; primary level.

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