Study On Practice Of Civic Education In The United Kingdom

The origin of modern civic education is some western countries which establish the capitalist system early, like Britain. France and the United States.Of them,civic education in the United Kingdom is deeply affected by his traditional political culture and has distinct characteristics.Studying historical development of civcic education is an important reference to the construction of the civic education theory system and practice of socialism with chinese characteristics.This paper consists of four parts:the determination of the concept of citizenship and civic education,the evolution of the history of British civic education,the reality of civic education in the United kingdom,some enlightment of British civic education,research theme is the model of the practice fo British civic education.The historical development of civic education in the United Kingdom has gone through three phases of civic arise,the government's approve and the government's implementation.British school has long been the missing citizencurriculum don't mean that there is no civic educationin British schools .British society and school education contain a variety of forms of civic education and its civic education makes harmonious progress between the mutual fusion of the tradition and change.The tropism of history and value of British civic education is very clear and is to cultivate modern democratic citizenships who are able to take part in political life of the country effectively.. The contents of civic education are also very rich, including the powers and responsibilities of citizenship education, moral education, media literacy education, personal social and health education and civic education in the world. The ways are various and there are four major channels, such as classroom teaching, school extra-curricular activities, social practice and the use of network. Enlightment drawn from civic education in the United Kingdom is: Civic education is objective requirements of run of democratic system; implementation of civic education must be suitable for national political culture; Civic education should be achieved through multi-level;.implemedtation of civic education is the government's important duty.