The citizen and his education in hodiernal Brazil: the roles of the state and the teacher

This article aims to discuss the citizen education in hodiernal Brazil, by highlighting the role that both the state and the teachers play in this training process. Methodologically, this work is based on the review of the literature concerning the subject approached in it. Thus, from the contemporary reflection about the concepts of citizen and citizenship, the text brings a critical approach not only of educational public policies formulated and implemented within the Union, states and municipalities from the 1990s but also of the teaching work developed in Brazilian public schools nowadays. With that, it is intended to discuss how the state and the teachers, key actors in the educational setting, can contribute to the process of citizenship education.