CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO THE FORMATION OF STUDENTS’ CIVIC COMPETENCE: INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS
The article is devoted to the analysis of youth civic education, civic engagement, and civic competence in international and national contexts. Over the last decades these themes have acquired importance in research, policy and practice in many parts of the world, including the EU and Ukraine. Cit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Alfred Nobel University Publisher
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Вісник Університету імені Альфреда Нобеля. Серія Педагогіка і психология |
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| Online Access: | https://pedpsy.duan.edu.ua/images/PDF/2021/1/11.pdf |
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| Summary: | The article is devoted to the analysis of youth civic education, civic engagement, and civic competence
in international and national contexts. Over the last decades these themes have acquired importance
in research, policy and practice in many parts of the world, including the EU and Ukraine. Citizenship,
citizen, civic virtues, civic culture, civic competence are singled out by the authors as the key concepts of
the discussed phenomena. Civic competence is defined as a path for a person to be included into a certain
political or social community; it is the knowledge and exercising of the rights and duties of this community;
it is a civic self-identification and a quality of a personality that necessitates his/her active participation in
political or public life and characterizes his/her community involvement; it is a moral value that is based
on the sense of patriotism, respect for human rights, sense of duty, responsibility, tolerance, solidarity.
The genesis and the formation of the citizenship from the time of Aristotle to the present has passed the
way from seeing it as a critical engagement with others; understanding and exercising one’s own rights
and freedoms, and towards realizing the necessity of interdependence of the world nations and the world
equality.
The second part of the article substantiates the importance of youth civic education for both Ukraine
and other countries as young people greatly influence the future of their nations. The main structural
components of civic education that are presented by the authors include understanding key concepts,
fostering respect for law, justice, democracy and common good, encouragement of thought independence.
It develops skills of reflection, enquiry and debate.
The article also presents the models of civic education for secondary and higher schools and highlights
the problems related to the formation of civic education in Ukraine. The emphasis is placed on the use of
serious video games as a promising tool for the formation of civic competence actively used in Western
Europe. Examples of social projects based on serious video games, web platforms and mobile devices
aimed at solving social problems of the society include Nutriciencia project, Ukrainian GameHub project,
Hidden in the Part game. Conclusions are made about the need to recognize civic education not only as a
subject of the curriculum, but as an integral part of educational policy – central to both educators and the
society as a whole, both on the international and national levels. |
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| ISSN: | 2522-4115 2522-9133 |