Democratic Citizenship Education and the Challenges

One of the elements of democratic citizenship is the freedom of expression of oneself, the right to education and to choose representatives in governments, among others. The freedom of expression of oneself is a legacy of the free world. It is not a philosophy waiting to be proven; but has been proven to be the most important engine with education in overcoming the barriers and challenges to democracy itself. This thesis therefore will serve to highlight four major areas of this concern. A challenge in literal means a demanding situation that requires some kind of action. Challenges to democracy means problems that comes while ensuring a democratic set up in the country. It discusses the issues that need to be solved to sustain democracy in the country. Some of these challenges are deepening democracy, illiteracy, expansion and corruption and inefficiency.
Democracies need active, informed and responsible citizens; citizens who are willing and able to take responsibility for themselves and their communities and contribute to the political process. These are the four challenges that democracy has on Citizenship education, but these challenges can and must overcome with the help of democratic citizenship education. Democratic Citizenship Education is simply legal status in a country; it is also demands becoming informed about issues that affect you as an individual and participating with others in determine how society will resolve those challenges that were discussed before. Citizens are aware of these challenges but don’t know how to overcome these challenges because the problem lies in the people of our society that is at the head of the country. Democratic Citizenship Education will help citizens to be responsive, knowledgeable, and active in their community and becomes a global citizen. Democratic Citizenship Education helps citizens to know their rights and responsibilities as a citizen Deepening democracy is faced by every democracy in one form or