Citizenship, Education and Everyday Life

Abstract

This paper consists
of a theoretical essay which investigates the theme of citizenship as
an everyday practice. It proposes conceptual interventions in this field and
at the same time it seeks to establish interlocutions with situations related
to educational processes, particularly those that take place at schools on
a daily basis. It aims at making connections between categories related to
the area of everyday life studies and the thematic perspectives of some researchers
that have recently discussed the theme of citizenship education
as an everyday practice. Three analytical categories, agency, experience
and identity, will stand as points of interrelation between the two research
lines presented on the theme. In the end, we suggest what the interconnection
of those two perspectives might bring to the understanding of citizenship
and for the processes of citizenship education.