Citizen in a changeable
world
The meaning of the “citizenship”
Active
Responsible
Solidly
European
Caterina lombardo 2007
What the “citizenship” is ?
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citizenship is the most complete
and inclusive form of taking part in the
life of the community
Caterina Lombardo 2007
Different types of humanity arise from the
necessity to stay together in order to answer
more effectively the individual demand for
needs:
- first (food, shelter, defence of external and
enviromental attack , …) and
- second ( affectivity, communication, mutual
identification, friendship, play, …)
Caterina Lombardo 2007
OCCUPATION, among human activities , links
many needs:
1.those which arise from the exercise of the
physical and mental resources (to better the
quality of the material life )
2. those which reply to the necessity to stay
together and to cooperate (to better the quality
of the intellectual and emotional life)
Caterina Lombardo 2007
Who withdraws from the others, impoverishes
his/her own life.
TAKING PART IN THE LIFE OF THE
COMMUNITY WHERE ONES LIVES OFFERS
TO EACH INDIVIDUAL THE POSSIBILITY
TO DISCOVER AND REALIZE
THE FEATURES OF HIS/HER OWN
PERSONALITY
Caterina Lombardo 2007
When a human being becomes part of a community
he/she acquires a series of rights of
participation
They are different rights in accordance with the
nature, aims, dimensions of the community in
which a human being takes part (family, local
community, Nation, European Union)
Caterina Lombardo 2007
THERE ARE SOME FOUNDAMENTAL
RIGHTS THAT THE HUMAN
COMMUNITIES ARE OBLIGED TO
RESPECT
They are the
UNIVERSAL RIGHTS OF THE MANKIND
obtained through age-old successions of conquests
of civilization, often closely-fought and bloody.
France, 1789 – Declaration of the Rights of Man
and Citizen
ONU, 1948 – Universal Declaration of the Human
Rights
Italy, 1948 – Constitution of the Republic
Preface to the Declaration of 1948
Our greater aim is a world where human
beings have the right of saying what they
think, of choosing what they want to believe
in and of living without fear
The law must defend the human rights
CONSTITUTION OF THE
ITALIAN REPUBLIC
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Art. 3
All citizens have the same social dignity and they
are equal for the law, without distinction of sex, of
race, of language, of religion, of political views, of
personal conditions.
The Republic has to remove the economic and
social obstacles which, limiting citizens’ freedom
and equality, prevent the full development of the
human being and the effective partecipation of all
workers to the political, economic and social
organization of a Country.
Europe of rights
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1950 – European convention of the human
rights and of the foundamental freedom
EUROPEAN COURT
OF HUMAN RIGHTS
7th December 2000
BILL OF FOUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
OF EU
(Nizza’s Document)
Caterina Lombardo 2007
From all these declarations come out that:
RIGHTS
RESPONSABILITY
INDIVIDUAL
DUTIES
ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP = RESPONSIBLE
CITIZENSHIP
All people have
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right to private and home life
right to have opinions and profess different religions
right to speak freely
right to be properly informed
right to study
right to health
right to work
right to enviroment
EACH RIGHT, PRACTISED RESPONSABLY WITHIN THE
COMMUNITY, IS FEELING OF A SOLID CITIZENSHIP
SUMMARIZING:
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Citizen (civis) is who is actively part of an
organized social and political background
(civitas)
Citizenship is source of rights and duties within
an organization checked by laws and rules which
become security for individuals’ freedom and
civil, political, social and economic rights.
Caterina Lombardo 2007
ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP
RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP
SOLID CITIZENSHIP
EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
Caterina Lombardo 2007
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People are citizens of social and political
different organizations at the same time ( family,
school, work, local community, Nation, E.U.)
Each of these aggregations is part of a larger
community and it has the task to warrant rights
and equal opportunities for all individuals who
live in it.
IN THIS WAY THE DIFFERENCES ARE
RECOGNIZED AND APPRECIATED
Caterina Lombardo 2007
The transnational citizenship
EUROPEAN UNION
E. U. is based on the idea that, even though the
different cultural and territorial belongings,
VALUES – RIGHTS – DUTIES
exist
They are common to all citizens of the European
Nations:
Values of the democratic cohabitation
Values of universal rights of the mankind
Values of the solidarity and peace
The European Union , developing these values, consider
Education and Training of its citizens the first and most
civil and economic important mean of progress
In a “Society of knowledge” the economy and the
walfare depend on the skilful and the common use
of new knowledges and new technologies.
In a “Society of information” the nature of the work
and the production change: that’s why the necessity
for all people to be part of the new conquest of the
knowledge and its consequences on the quality of
life
Caterina Lombardo 2007
Two new ideas
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LIFE LONG LEARNING
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DIGITAL DIVIDE
Caterina Lombardo 2007
OTHER INITIATIVE …
ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP FOR DEMOCRACY
PROJECT
 2005: EUROPEAN YEAR OF CITIZENSHIP
THROUGH EDUCATION
Active citizenship= Participation in the civil society , in
the political life and in the community life, characterized
by the mutual respect and by the non-violence
according to the human rights and the democracy.
Help: THE ACTIVE CITIZEN NEEDS
KNOWLEDGES, ABILITIES AND TO REACH
THE RESPECT OF THE FOUNDAMENTAL
PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND OF THE
PLURALISTIC DEMOCRACY.
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Art. 9
The Republic promotes the development of culture and the
scientific and technical research.
It protects the environment and the artistic and historical
heritage of the Nation.
Art. 33
Art and science are free and they can be taught freely.
The Republic sets the genaral standards for Education and sets
up state schools for everyone.
Public and private bodies have the right to set up schools
without paying anything to the Government (…)
Art. 34
School is open to everyone.
Clever and worthy people, even if lacking in means, have the
right to reach high standards of study
The Republic offers scholarships, family allowance and other
benefits which have to be assigned through a competition.
Prof. Caterina Lombardo
Gratuated with honours in classical studies.
Permanent teacher since 1986.
Teacher seconded (art. 14) to the University of Palermo (from 1988 to 1991),
Institute of Theory and History of Ideas, chair of Aesthetics and Philosophy
of language. She has carried out studies in depth on teaching method and
Italian literature, converged in the publication “Margaritas ante puellulos”. She
has carried out studies of classical linguistics in “Omero onomatopoios” as
well. She has carried out research into a literacy campaign in Italy in the eighties,
together with the University La Sapienza in Rome, under the direction of the
Professor Tullio De Mauro. She has conducted training seminars promoted by
the Aesthetics department at the University.
Teacher of Italian at I.C.S. “Ignazio Buttitta” since 2003.
Trained for the national project “Training to European Citizenship” at Liceo
Scientifico Palmeri (Termini Imerese), school year 2005-2006.
Trained e-tutor for the national project “Training to European Citizenship”,
taking part in the national seminar in Bologna in November 2006.
E-tutor for the regional project “Spazio 22” school year 2006-2007
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