CIVIC TRAINING, FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURE OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION

Abstract

Mexico has gone through different educational strategies, in which the importance of civic education has been rearranged in the hierarchy. Civic culture is part of citizen training, it is acquired in the educational field; and it is practiced in the social sphere. An important theme of this civic education is democracy, conceived as a form of government in which political power is exercised by citizens and not only by the group that holds power in a given time and space. In Mexico abstentionism occurs in the electoral environment, as a response from citizens who are not interested in the work of politicians and the government. Nor do they actively participate in solving problems that plague their community. This event identifies the absence of civic education in Mexican youth, and highlights the importance of including civic education in educational processes at all levels of public education. Higher education institutions have an educational mission; they are educators of citizenship, and above all of upright people who generate development in their communities, promote social cohesion, promote the formation of national identity and act with conscience in solving contemporary problems.