Responsible Education In The Perspective Of Citizens

Civic responsibility education is based on the thinking of contemporary citizenship and social crisis. After the Republican Citizenship, the right of citizenship based on liberalism is the dominant position in the modern western political life.As the core of liberalism citizenship, the individuality and rights are paramount, it regards the responsibility as a tool to protect the rights of the individual,what is more ,reducing civic responsibility to the scope of obligations.The concept of citizen rights orientation has led to modern social individual identity difficulty, moral anomie and political tool of the crisis,the newly emerged communitarianism has criticized it.Communitarianism believes that the individual lives in the community and is responsible for the community, emphasizing the individual’s sense of belongingness and the participation of public life, thus establishing a civic identity with responsibility as the orientation.Responsible citizenship is the demand of social reality. Meanwhile, the relationship between the individual and the pursuit of the other people form the theoretical basis of the responsible citizen.The cultivation of responsible citizens can not be separated from the understanding of its essence. As the nature of the responsible citizen, citizen responsibility is closely related to the responsible citizen.On the one hand, the rights of citizens and civic virtue constitute the inherent tension of responsible citizens, which is the basis for the establishment of civic responsibility; on the other hand, the inherent characteristics of civic responsibility to guide and regulate the responsibility of citizens make the responsibility of citizens to become active citizens.Civic responsibility includes not only the general responsibility of social norms, but also the public responsibility of virtue and virtue.The cultivation of responsible citizens lies in the education of civic responsibility. The goal of civic responsibility education is to promote the formation and identification of the community, to enhance the awareness of citizen participation and to improve the ability of citizen participation.The specific contents of civic responsibility education includes the citizen’s responsibility to others, the responsibility to the society, the responsibility to the country and the responsibility to the whole world.Citizen participation is a practical way to cultivate responsible citizens, participating in public life in the school community and social community helps to shape the responsibility of personality.The construction of Chinese citizen education system should be based on the theory of the western citizen and the experience of education.The traditional Chinese education,which is based on the obligation to cultivate the subject consciousness,has been impacted by the western right consciousness in modern times, and formed the negative citizen consciousness of right deviation.The current social transformation in the development of the market economy, civil society and the mainstream values provide the support and the good foundation for the development of citizen consciousness, the cultivation of citizen responsibility in contemporary society , so the contemporary civic education needs to transfer Chinese people from subjects to citizens, and from civil rights to responsibility citizen.