One of the important moments of the upbringing of the child, which parents and educational institutions should pay attention to is the education of a citizen of their country in the person who is aware of himself as a single whole with his homeland, ready to defend his state and freedom.
Education of citizenship begins in early childhood - with stories of parents about history, culture, national traditions, nature and achievements of their state. It is parents, by personal example, instilling in the child respect and pride for their fatherland, responsibility for the destiny of their country, respect for national traditions and the ability to find a common language with other nations and cultures.
Civic Education of Schoolchildren
Not only the family, but also the teachers of educational institutions for schoolchildren is responsible for the civic education of students. To this end, modern methods of civic education of schoolchildren include the formation of patriotism with the transition from specific moments in life to an abstract, common understanding of citizenship.
It is from the careful attitude to one's home, school, respect for classmates and teachers, knowledge and understanding of the history of its kind, the city, the study of local traditions and folklore that the understanding of the value of family, a small homeland and one's own country begins. The feeling of love for one's fatherland in the child must be filled with personal emotional experiences and connections, and patriotism must be based on the recognition of oneself as one with the nation and the state. It should not be forgotten that patriotism does not happen without respect for other countries and peoples with their own culture and statehood, as equal and equal in comparison with their own culture.
Civic Education of Youth
In our Internet age, young people from different countries have the opportunity to communicate among themselves, gradually becoming one with the world culture, but sometimes losing the sense of belonging to one's own. Young people can visually see and learn how their peers live in other countries, but at the same time problems with self-realization in their own country can cause feelings of dissatisfaction with their national and civic identity.
And it's difficult to change at a young age, if at one time the family and country in which people live, failed to instill awareness of themselves as citizens of their homeland. But at this moment the work can be aimed at the development of human dignity, the beginning of which is the disrespect of other nations towards the fact that they have not learned to respect themselves. It is necessary to develop pride in the person for history, achievements, culture, language of his country, understanding of its identity and equal importance among other cultures, and this requires knowledge of everything that the experience of previous generations brought to culture. It is on the desire to get knowledge of their culture, history, science should be directed to work on the civic education of young people.
The components of the system of civic education
In the complex of civic education the following aspects can be singled out:
- education of political culture (includes the education in a person of their own political views, beliefs and civic positions);
- education of legal culture (includes the education of respect for the legal norms and laws of the country, its own moral principles, the desire to obtain elementary legal literacy).
For this, methods such as the educational process, self-education, media education, out-of-class educational activities, the work of the family and public organizations, whose efforts are aimed at educating a citizen in a person, are used.