Citizenship skills training in preschool education

Abstract

This paper shows a potential way to train preschoolers in citizenship competences by gathering foundations from psychology of language and socio-cognitive development appropriate for this group of age. To sustain this proposal there are stated ideas coming from educational politics about what is essential to citizenship competences, stressing specialty its cognitive processes and emotional components. Working with narrative texts is proposed as the best form to disclose children comprehension about this matter. Finally, there are presented some suggestions based in psychopedagogical basis to use in school settings.