INTRODUCTION TO CIVIC EDUCATION

WHAT IS CIVIC EDUCATION?

• It is the awareness of the public in Civic matters such as governance, Politics, Work Culture, Human Rights, and Socioeconomic issues.
• It is the imparting of knowledge, ability, and capacity of Citizens to make sense of their Political world.
• It is the imparting of knowledge to people on issues pertaining to national affairs which hinge on governance.
• This means that Civic education may also refer to the active participation and engagement in self-governance by the citizens of the country. It covers the rights, duties, obligations, and responsibilities of citizens.

 

IMPORTANCE OF CIVIC EDUCATION

• It helps to form competent, active, and responsible citizens.
• It enables citizens to be aware of their fundamental rights and freedoms.
• It enables citizens to participate in voluntary organizations such as workers unions, women’s associations, community organizations, etc.
• It helps citizens to acquire proficiency in monitoring and correcting the policies and laws of their country.
• It helps to facilitate the development of knowledge, skills, and values in pupils.
• It enables to produce knowledgeable learners who are aware, can make decisions, judge, and act based on human rights and social responsibilities.
• It enables citizens to be the analytical, innovative, creative and constructive mind which will cherish and safeguard individual liberties and human rights.
• It helps to produce learners who can express one’s own ideas freely, exercise tolerance for other people’s views and maintain discipline and hard work for the sake of personal and national development.
• It enables pupils to contribute to the promotion of democratic values and sustenance of democratic systems by making them understand, cherish and defend its equality.
• It enables pupils to understand, cherish, promote and protect the equality between men and women, human rights, the rule of law, representative governance, etc.
• It enables pupils to contribute to the promotion of democratic values and sustenance of democratic systems by making them understand, cherish and defend its equality.
• It enables pupils to understand, cherish, promote and protect the equality between men and women, human rights, the rule of law, representative governance, etc.