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1. CHAPTER ONE
CIVIC AND ETHICAL EDUCATION

2. Context
• Introduction to civic and Ethical Education
• The concept of civic education
• Scope of civic education
• Significance and goals
• The Nature of civic education
• Meaning of Ethics
• Civic and ethical values

3. Demand
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4. Chapter One
Introduction to civic and Ethical Education
• Definition:-
• The word Civic is derived from Latin word civis
which means “citizen” and also from another
Latin word ‘civitas’ which refers to city –state.
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• *civic education started in Athens, Greece.
Democracy and civic education had the same
root and beginning time.

5. The concept of civic education has been defined by many authorities and intellectuals in many ways.
• It is defined as a branch of social science which studies
the right and duties of citizens.
• It is also defined as a science which studies the theory
and practice of free and open democratic society.
• It is the branch of human knowledge which deals with
the rights and duties of a person living as a member of
a group of people politically organized.
• For some it is useful branch of human knowledge
which deals with everything (Social, intellectual,
economical, political and religious aspects) pertaining
to citizenship past, present and the future.
• It is an education for citizens or citizenship.

6. Cont..
• Generally civic education is a branch of knowledge
which deals with various aspects of social life of
citizens paying special attention to rights and duties of
citizens.
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• As an education for citizens, civic education is a
process of learning through which students gain
necessary knowledge, skills and attitude to be a
complete competent and good citizens.
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7. Scope of civic education;-
• Civic education being education for citizens, deals
among others with the following:-
• Constitution
• Democracy
• Human right
• The state and government
• Citizenship
• Social values, international relations and global issues
• Rule of law

8. Cont.
• Rights and duties in a social life
• Quality of Interpersonal communication
• Development of personal understanding and
perception of social issues and institution,
government ,right and duty and rules of law
• capacity to make a judgment

9. Cont..
• Simply civic education can be seen as
intensive study and understanding of ,
personal life , political institution, special the
system of self governance , its values ,
commitment and assumptions, its relevant
history , its problems, burdens and
opportunities.

10. Significance and goals of civic education
Significance
• Civic education helps to resolve social conflicts
in a society and help man to live in harmony
with other fellow beings.
• It enables students to understand all aspects
of life in the nation and also enable them to
be part of the solution, while it also helps
them protect their own rights and that of the
other.

11. Goals of civic education
• The most important aim of teaching civic education
is to produce ideal citizens, i.e. to impart in the
young all the qualities of ideal citizens.
• Building civic competence of citizens ;- civic
competence is the capacity to or ability to
participate effectively in the political as well as social
system.
• Promoting the culture of civic responsibility. Civic
responsibility is the commitment to fulfill citizens
obligation.

12. To be a responsible citizen you need know
• How government is organized
• How government operates
• Law and how law is made
• Economic policies and process
• Political system
• Social realities
• Tolerance, respect and living with diversity

13. The Nature of civic education
• Civic education is an interdisciplinary subject. An
interdisciplinary subject is a subject that draws its contents
from various sources.
• The sources of civic education are categorized into three
parts:
• Theoretical sources: - major are political science,
philosophy, law, economics, sociology, history and
geography.
• Documentary sources:-refers to various international
agreements and conventions, decision and enactment of
legal bodies, historical sources, films and photography.

14. • Social sources: includes institutionalized and non-
institutionalized sources of knowledge ,skills and
attitudes, such as ;-
• Families
• Role models
• Schools
• Professional association
• Religious institution
• Media etc.

15. Ethics : Meaning
• Is a value-laden (filled) fields of philosophy but different from value-
theory which study about value. Here value refers to value in any and
all of its manifestation. Ethics is concerned with particular sort of
values, namely, value that applies to personal actions, decisions and
relations. It concerned with moral values. It raises the following
questions,
• Like
• What is morally good?
• What is morally bad?
• What is morally right
• What is morally wrong?
• What is justice?
• What is injustice?

16. Cont..
• Etymologically, the word ‘ethics’ is derived from the
Greek word ‘ethos’ which originally denoted a
location, a place where people lived together. Latter
on this term acquired other meaning such as
custom, temperament, character, and of thinking.
• In Latin of ancient Rome equivalent word for ethos is
‘mos’ which can be translated as mores,
custom ,character, behavior , property , inner-nature
etc.
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17. Cont..
• Ethics is a theory of good and bad and right and wrong. It
focuses in the evaluating standards, prescribing forms of
conduct.
• Ethics is the study of rational justification for mental
judgment and action. It analyzes the sources of morality or
criteria to determine what is moral or immoral.
• In antiquity ethics supreme good (best sources of morality)
or bases of perfect personality was identical to happiness
or delight.
• During medieval period absolute sources of morality were
perceived as God’s commandment

18. Civic and ethical values
• Democratic values:-
• cooperation, compromise ,civility in speech,
consensus, compassionate and etc
• Pacific settlement of dispute
• Accountability
• Transparency
• Respects of other’s rights an safeguarding one’s
rights
• Tolerance

19. Cont..
• Legal values:-
• Rule of law
• Equality before the law
• Justice
• To work for corrupt free society
• Value of self- governance
• Truthfulness
• Respect of professional ethics

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