Civics Board Question of 2014. Civics is the study of the theoretical and practical aspects of citizenship, its rights and duties; the duties of citizens to each other as members of a political body and to the government. It includes the study of civil law and civil code, and the study of government with attention to the role of citizens ― as opposed to external factors ― in the operation and oversight of government.
Within a given political or ethical tradition, civics refers to educating the citizens. The history of civics dates back to the earliest theories of civics by Confucius in ancient China and Plato in ancient Greece. In China also along with Confucianism developed the tradition of Legalism. These traditions in the East and in the West developed to an extent differently, therefore, with bringing in the past different concepts of citizens rights and the application of justice, together with different ethics in public life. This was mainly valid before the translation of the Western legal tradition to Chinese which started in 1839 after which influence by Western tradition was brought to China, with periods of restoration of traditional Chinese law, influence by Soviet law; specific is the common ordinary language used in Chinese laws which has significant educational role.
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Civics Board Question of 2014
Civics Board Question of 2014
Civics Board Question of 2014
Civics Board Question of 2014
Civics Board Question of 2014
Sudbury schools contend that values, social justice and democracy must be learned through experience as Aristotle said: “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”They adduce that for this purpose schools must encourage ethical behavior and personal responsibility.
In order to achieve these goals schools must allow students the three great freedoms—freedom of choice, freedom of action and freedom to bear the results of action—that constitute personal responsibility. The “strongest, political rationale” for democratic schools is that they teach “the virtues of democratic deliberation for the sake of future citizenship.”
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