Citizenship Education in Dutch Vocational and Educational Training and Higher Education
Citizenship Education in Dutch Vocational and Educational Training and Higher Education

Summary/Abstract: The aim of citizenship education in higher (vocational) education is to promote the development of active citizens in a democratic society. On the one hand, citizenship education seeks to engender a sense of civic responsibility, expressed in relations within the school, interpersonal communication and civilised behaviour. On the other hand citizenship education can be taken to mean imparting knowledge and fostering acceptance of the community’s social and political practices and the willingness and ability to contribute to them (Education Council, 2003; Campus Compact, 2001). This article gives an overview of how VET and higher education organised in the Netherlands and what are the recent changes in the system? How have citizenship issues been incorporated into VET and higher education and how is citizenship education being implemented? Furthermore, it aims to analyze how strong is the need to include citizenship education in Dutch curricula and what are the barriers to citizenship education within the Dutch educational system?

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