How to strengthen civic education in primary and secondary schools

1. Promote traditional culture, enrich the content of education, and make good use of the New Citizen Reader.

In fact, if civic education is detached from traditional culture, it will become something without roots, and something without roots has no vitality. Whether our civic education can really have advantages and characteristics, the key link lies in the absorption, promotion and creative transformation of traditional Chinese culture. In today's world, culture is intertwined with economy and politics, and its position and role in the comprehensive national power are becoming more and more prominent. The power of culture is y embedded in the vitality, creativity and cohesion of the nation." And stressed that: "in the face of the world's various ideological and cultural mutual agitation, we must promote and cultivate the national spirit as a cultural construction of the most important task, into the whole process of national education, into the whole process of spiritual civilization construction, so that all the people always maintain a spirited and upward state of mind.

The New Citizen Reader includes four aspects: civic ethics, civic values, civic knowledge and civic participation skills. Among them, civic morality includes the themes of tolerance, gratitude, honesty and dignity; civic values include the themes of freedom, equality, human rights, democracy, rule of law, and living in harmony with nature; civic knowledge includes the themes of democratic politics, political party system, and justice; and civic participation skills include the themes of communicating with others, giving speeches, taking part in elections, dealing with disputes, and defending rights and interests.

In the past, moral education in traditional societies and planned economies shaped the personality of "subjects" who fulfilled their obligations and complied with obedience, and the final result of such education was the cultivation of a large number of "common people"; while modern societies and market economies require that people have a sense of subjectivity, participation, and the right to participate. The modern society and market economy require people to have a sense of subjectivity, participation, rights and supervision, i.e., citizens who actively participate in public **** life, bravely strive for freedom, and dare to defend and expand their rights. The modern state needs not "old people", but new citizens.

2. Strengthening civic education and cultivating civic consciousness.

Under the influence of the traditional concept of education to the test, the ideological and political education class is mainly oriented to the mastery of knowledge, teaching and emphasizing the pure indoctrination, thus ignoring the cultivation of students' personality and the development of civic awareness. A student may get a high score in the political science exam, but in life he may be a person who does not abide by social morality. The intellectualization, instrumentalization and scientization of the traditional political science classes have separated the education of human knowledge from the construction of spirit. Therefore, we need to change our teaching concepts, focus on the openness of ideological and political education, and permeate civic education into all courses of ideology and politics in a modern civil society that is open and respects pluralism, so as to enhance students' modern civic consciousness, such as democracy, equality, autonomy, and criticism.

3. Strengthening practical exercises to carry out practical activities of civic education. Service learning is a kind of educational method based on the theory of experiential learning, combining curriculum learning with community service. Through school-community partnerships, it engages students in organized service initiatives to meet social needs and develop responsible citizens. The focus of service-learning is not only to promote students' knowledge learning through service to the community, but also to develop students' civic awareness, sense of social responsibility, and spirit of cooperation. Therefore, in the teaching of ideological and political courses, students should be guided and organized to carry out service learning, focusing on practical exercises, infiltrating civic consciousness from various aspects, and making students feel the sense of real life in ideological and political education. In the process of practicing, we should take into account the relevance of the service to what students have learned and the actual needs of the community, and we should be good at guiding students to think in a civic way. The teacher first asked the students to think about and raise public **** problems that exist around them. Students began to put forward the problems, and one by one listed on the blackboard: some people steal manhole covers; some people in the area littering; the city there is a serious "road market" phenomenon ... ... Then, students to vote on the way to sift out the problem we want to * * * together to solve the problem: Jiefangqiao east of the lack of a traffic light, so there are often traffic accidents. As a result, there are often traffic accidents. After that, the children acted: some to calculate the intersection of motor vehicles through the amount per minute; some statistics on the rate of accidents at the intersection; some to interview the traffic police; some contacted the traffic department of the Street Lighting Administration ...... This class can also be held on this issue of the hearing, inviting representatives of the community, the traffic department, drivers and pedestrians and other relevant institutions, personnel together to explore solutions.

4, improve education methods, realize the innovation of moral education.

Civic education work should reach the realm of the unconscious, that is, so that the educated unconsciously accept the educator's ideas without realizing it. Educators should pay attention to mobilize the enthusiasm of the educated to participate in ideological education, China has a lot of museums, memorials, exhibition halls and other educational bases, regularly held major anniversary celebrations, these educational bases and celebrations in the work of ideological education plays an important role. This reveals that we should strengthen the improvement of the social environment and promote the unconsciousness of ideological and political education with a good environment. At the same time, to enhance the personality appeal of the subject of education, through the educator's behavior, morality, style, knowledge to enlighten and correct the value orientation of the educated.

5. With the development of civic education, school management and the education system will be changed accordingly.

Students should live a life of civic awareness at school. If the school decides to give a student a disciplinary action, the student has the right to a hearing, the right to a defense, and the right to know how the school's decision was made. A student representative assembly is held, and the officers of the assembly and the head of the school are required to answer the questions of the representatives in person. Students participate in the management of the school through the representative assembly and become the real masters of the school, not the objects of supervision - this is the practice of cultivating citizenship. As long as the system is related to students, students should be involved from the formulation to the implementation of the system. If students are dissatisfied with any system or wish to develop a new system, they can submit it to the student representative assembly for discussion in the form of a proposal.

Civic education is accomplished through civic life.