Citizen, sustainable development and education model in Albania
| Author | Majlinda Keta |
| Position | University of Tirana |
| Pages | 139-146 |
ISSN 2410-3918 Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol 1 No 2
Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania July 2015
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Citizen, sustainable development and education model in Albania
Majlinda Keta
University of Tirana
Abstract
2015 is the last year of the Decade for Education and Sustainable Development worldwide. e
conclusions of this great project initiated by UNESCO are expected to give their feedback in the
following years. Albania with a new democracy but with great ambitions to catch up the sustainable
development, has tried to take part in this project without a concrete strategy. e decade coincided
with two reforms in the pre university education (2012 and 2015) and one in higher education.
ey do not only spotlight the philosophical education but also leave it as a secondary option
without objectives. In this sense main purpose of this article is the analysis of the education model
in Albania based on these points of view stated above.
Keywords: Philosophical education, education for sustainable development, good citizen, democracy,
civic education.
Introduction
Democracy in Albania, even though it has almost a quarter century, remains a challenging
and unstable democracy. Referring to the fact that democracy comes aer a long period of
dictatorship (Hoxhist system regarded as the most dictatorial in the Eastern Europe) and
the fact that the whole education system was under the pressure of Marxism–Leninism
ideology, the need to create and generate qualitative human capital is a vital need.
Albania is a country with a young average age (36); this means that the need to educate
young people about the concepts of freedom and as responsible citizens can be considered
as challenges of democracy itself. Considering the fact that, today’s democratic world,
with a vast experience in education with rights and freedoms has reviewed the whole
process of education in its institutional curricula (Dewey, 2005). e Albanian need
to suit these standards becomes an immediate necessity. Albanian DotNet- sat1 in our
survey has shown us the need for a thorough review of school curriculum and the role of
philosophical education in them. Sustainable development would be reachable through
global citizenship education and this matter would be done through higher education
system. e literature of education is joined with citizenship noticeably (Lee, 2000).
Alibeigi (2006) stated that the process of sustainable development is closely connected
with some principles:
1Dot NET-how do young people aged from 16 to 26) mean, they state that “... we believe that one
of their dening characteristics is that: 1.ey have come together with the age of the Internet. 2.
e information has always been free and almost universally available to them; 3. In terms of free
technology it is easy to master; 4. It is more like a digital space of common interests than common
physical space. 5. ey came to the era’s boom of the Clinton scandal, 6. When the economy is
inuenced and even more 7. It is a tendency of refocusing to family.
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