When, in societies today, civic commitment decreases, there is
a call for the need to strengthen citizenship education, identified
uniquely with its public dimension and, on the other hand, the
requirement for character education has been advocated, which is
a cultivator of the most strictly private dimension. Setting out from
the recognition of the new social conditions, mediated by the
phenomenon of globalisation and of the place that people have
in these new contexts, we ask ourselves about the new profile
which the construction of citizenship must adopt. We endeavor to
show that the moral dimension is the core of reconsidering the
link between the private and the public, so it would currently be
meaningless to propose an education of citizenship exclusively
focused on its public dimensio
