THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING CIVIC CULTURE IN THE FORMATION OF ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP

Abstract

The reality of the last decades (terrorism, ethnic and religious persecution,
discrimination, forced migration, criminality etc.) demonstrates that young people
need to know their rights and duties to develop their sense of responsibility
towards themselves and to the community, as well as the attachment and the spirit
of sacrifice to their neighbours and their homeland but also to be patriotic. The
main goal of civic education is to prepare generations for the essential principles
and values of democracy embodied with a high sense of responsibility and active
engagement in issues the society, community, or state face in their everyday life.
The educational approach, in this respect, tries to cultivate behaviour in
accordance with social norms and ethics, in order to apply and respect them in
education's role is obvious in building the good behaviour of citizens. The paper
analyses the perspectives offered by the actual Romanian curriculum for social as
well civic culture.