Entre la imposición y la necesidad: implementación del Plan de Formación Ciudadana en escuelas chilenas

The results of the young Chileans who participated in the International Study of Civic and Citizenship Education 2016 emphasize the need for the school to positively influence the formation of citizens, which has been reinforced by Law No. 20.911.  Following a qualitative methodology and an interpretive approach of a multiple case study, this project seeks to characterize the materialization of the educational policy of citizenship education in eight schools throughout the country. This was done based on an analysis of the Plan for Citizenship Education, observation of teacher practices, review of documents and the perception of teachers, principals and 8 th grade students, gleamed from interviews. Results show that the elaboration of the Plan for Citizenship Education has lacked proper support and its responsibility lies mainly with the teacher assigned to oversee its implementation, in each school, which implies that in many cases there is no collaborative reflection on the type of citizen that should be formed. Likewise, the work of educating citizens is assigned to the subject of History, Geography and Social Sciences, contradicting the transversal nature of Citizenship Education in the school curriculum. Finally, the Citizenship Education Plan is drawn up primarily to comply with current ministerial regulations.