ABSTRACT
School is the place children, young people and teachers can and should practice full citizenship because, as J. Dewey maintained, schools are miniature or minor democratic societies. Those who are leaning to teach, that is, in teacher education, are students of an age that is regarded as being ‘adult’ and therefore have full rights as citizens in their society. Different stakeholders in societies have always focused on wide range of aspirations and demands directed at teacher education. The Reference Framework Competences for Democratic Culture must be seen as one phase in the implementation process of democratic citizenship, but also as a counter-reaction; for example, member countries of the European Union are deeply concerned about the commitment to democracy and education for democracy by the member states like Poland and Hungary. The utopia, which has been building up at the rhetorical level since the 1990s, is implementing itself in different levels of teacher education to encourage practice.
