Educação para a cidadania e consciência dos direitos e deveres fundamentais

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the application on moral development theory by Lawrence Kohlberg in the construction of a conscience about fundamental rights and duties. For such intent, at first, will be introduced the concept of the moral education and your insertion into the school scope. In a second moment, will be diagnosed all the structures about the social ills in Brazil –corruption, security, violence, tolerance, imprisonment, democracy, peace and education. Therefore, this study focused on analyzing the school as a place that’s promotes the citizen-student when implement an education for citizenship from the dialectic between social ills and the teaching of a citizen's learning.