Sabtu, 21 Januari 2012

Indonesia


Civic Education

Civic Education
Civic Education is an important component of education that cultivates citizens to participate in the public life of a democracy, to use their rights and to discharge their responsibilities with the necessary knowledge and skills. American schools have advanced a distinctively civic mission since the earliest days of this Republic. It was immediately recognized that a freesociety must ultimately depend on its citizens, and that the way to infuse the people with the necessary qualities is through education. As one step of this education process, higher education has been assuming the mission to foster citizens with the spirit to lead. The literature on this contribution, and civic education in general, is characterized by its broad time range, its composition of diverse voices from all kinds of participating social units (from individual to government), and the existence of rich international and comparative studies