On Civic Education During The Period Of The Enlightenment In France

The citizen education thought began to adorable was born in ancient Greece. Around fifteenth Century, the initial formation of the modern citizenship, means having a suffrage, to country, society is formed to assume public roles and responsibilities of the people. Bourgeois revolution, capitalism had hitherto unknown development, citizenship is a term widely spreading, give true freedom, equality and essential connotation. Seventeen, eighteenth Century, the British Rock and France’s Rousseau proposed natural rights, the sovereignty of the people thought, emphasize national citizens belonging to all, declared a state of all citizens are equal and each other.During the period of the enlightenment in France has a "political nation" feature, is a parliamentary constitutional democracy civic education is a matter of cultivating and bringing up the career of the whole people, it has the cultural and scientific knowledge, moral education and practical technical training, extensive connotation, which is the Enlightenment thinkers on the future citizen to adapt to society the development needs of the overall quality of positioning.The end of the eighteenth Century to nineteenth Century, Europe and the United States have carried out a bourgeois revolution and Reform:the French Revolution of1789,1848of the European revolution. And on this basis, issued a "Declaration of human rights", to a certain extent, has established its own citizens rights and status, citizenship education commenced. In France, Kang Dorset think government should take the responsibility of education of men and women, including the establishment of junior primary school, high school, middle school and College in the school system. On education content, he advocated the abolition of the traditional religious education, from elementary education stage is to cultivate students’understanding of the rights and obligations of citizens, therefore, should the Constitution and the declaration of human rights. Ray Pell is also presented to children’s education, organized children to participate in agriculture and dedicated internship factory labor, learning the "Universal Declaration of human rights" and the French revolution historical tales and other aspects of the content of education, the purpose is to train children to be patriotic citizens. The bourgeoisie ruling party attaches great importance to the problems on civic education, and positively the respective civic education programs into the practice, to some extent on the promotion of civic education.This paper argues that the citizen education development of historical evolution and inheritance, especially the enlightenment and French citizenship education content is changed with the social development, has the obvious characteristics of the times; on the other hand, the French citizenship education is the result of legislation and policy escort was able to gradually perfect, although the implementation of citizenship still exist in teacher training and evaluation system and other aspects of the problem but its valuable citizen education experience is worth our reference and study. At the same time, in the implementation of civic education in the process to constantly reflect on, the construction has the Chinese characteristic system of citizenship education.