write dialogue between two parents while critical reflecting and emphasizing on the need of developing civics sense of the child.
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September 1998
Margaret Stimmann Branson, Associate Director
Center for Civic Education
Table of Contents
Introduction
What is civic education?
What are the essential components of a good civic education?
Civic knowledge
Civic skills: intellectual and participatory
Civic dispositions: essential traits
Where and how does civic education take place?
Formal instruction
The informal curriculum
What evidence is there of the need to improve civic education?
What is the relationship between civic education and character education?
Policy Recommendations
Conclusion
References
Appendix
The Role of Civic Education
I. Introduction
Societies have long had an interest in the ways in which their young are prepared for citizenship and in how they learn to take part in civic life. Today that interest might better be described as a concern-in fact as a growing concern, particularly in democratic societies. There is evidence aplenty that no country, including our own United States, has achieved the level of understanding and acceptance of the rights and responsibilities among the totality of its citizens that is required for the maintenance and improvement of any constitutional democracy.