Deliberating about Bernardo O’Higgins. Citizenship education and leadership in the Bicentennial

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to analyze whether the background information about Bernardo O'Higgins provided to students during their school education could be used to discuss political leadership as it occurs in today's society. To this end, we take as a reference the fundamental contents referring to O'Higgins that have been incorporated in Chilean school textbooks in the last fifteen years, and we connect them with those elements present in the problem of leadership in Chile. From this, we highlight three perspectives that these contents could contribute to the deliberation of students in their preparation as citizens.