Student Participation as a Strategy for Values and Citizenship Formation on Higher Education

Abstract

To achieve student participation in universities is one of the most important challenges of education, from a pedagogical, social and integral point of view. This paper reflects on the role of the university, student participation and education in values as components of citizenship education. The role of the university and university life as a space where different actors and specific groups cooperate, is discussed, and their actions and interactions are defined by what can be seen as a place where conversational processes of everyday life are constantly built and deconstructed (Murcia, 2009a). The concept of youth is contextualized, to finally discuss the vision of civic education as an important part of education in values and its relevance within a context that one of the most important sociologists of our time, Zigmunt Bauman (2000), accurately has defined as fluid, changing and liquid in contemporary generations.