The Citizen Habitus in the Costa Rican Civic Education Program from the Ethics, Esthetics, and Citizenship Project

Abstract

This article deals with the thorough reflection regarding the desirable citizen profile stated by the Ministry of Public Education in the Costa Rican Civic Education Syllabus through the concept of citizen habitus constituted within the structuralism-constructivism. In order to achieve this, the researcher first analyzed the work of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to build a theoretical-conceptual proposal of the citizen habitus concept. Secondly, the author conducted a qualitative content analysis of the Civic Education Syllabus to establish basic lines to set a general outlines of the citizen habitus established as expected by the Ministry of Public Education. Finally, the researcher stated a series of considerations that aim to contribute to expand the perspective of analysis, reflection, and debate in terms of the Civic Education in the educational phenomenon.