Abstract
Mexico has a low valuation of democracy and fragile citizenship. Therefore, citizenship education is essential. This has been studied in adolescents and young people, but not in boys and girls. The objective of this article is to present the results of a citizen evaluation on basic citizenship learning in children between 7 and 17 years of age. Quantitative analyzes are used in a sample of 1436 children and adolescents in Yucatan, Mexico. The Basic Citizenship Learning (ABC) questionnaire and a context questionnaire were applied. Results: The average of basic citizenship learning is 3.48 (SD = 6.646). There are some relationships with gender, school attendance, type of public / private support of the school and ethnicity. The need to strengthen basic learning of citizenship in children that allows to reverse the low valuation of democracy in the country and promote a sustantive citizen construction is discussed.
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