Citizenship education and university in Colombia: cultural and communication policies for participation

Abstract

This article aims are to describe and analyze from the citizenship education perspective in two Colombian universities, one public and one private, the impacts and effects produce in the universities by the international, national and institutional policy in this matter. Recompilation and analysis were done following the “grounded theory” through four semi-structured interviews chosen intentionally. Atlas.ti software was used to process the data. The article presents the results, conclusions and discussions to try to improve the citizenship education in both universities.