公民與公民教育─新世紀公民教育發展方向

Direction of Civic Education in the New Century the Role of Government in Education Reform - the Experience

蕭揚基(Young-Key Shiau)

《公民訓育學報》 10期 (2001/06) Pp. 125-148

https://doi.org/10.6231/CME.2001(10)06

摘要

本文環繞著「在邁入二十一世紀之際，我們應如何看待公民角色、以及如何確立公民教育的發展方向？」這個問題展開討論。文中首先指出政治文化中的「公民」理念的發展，緊接著分析公民與民主政治體系的關係，以它為基礎探討發展公民教育時應思考問題，並以之作為準據討論我國公民教育發展方向。筆者想在強調的是：在邁入新世紀的過程中，透過學習性的公民教育，讓公民對公共生活能有所覺醒，能主動參與公共領域事務，且能促成公民的成長以適應未來社會的巨變，這將對於我國社會發展具有深刻的啟示。

關鍵字

公民 ； 公民教育 ； 終身學習

並列摘要

This essay is focused on: How will we treat the roles of citizen and establish the developing direction of civic education in the 21st century? Before entering the main theme of this essay, the author like to point out the development of ”citizen” in political cultures. Followings discuss the relationship between citizen and democratic politics, which is used as a guideline for establishing issues when considering the development of citizen education. Based on the relationship, we also discuss the developing direction of our citizen education. In conclusion, the author emphasizes the most urgent issues are that people should bear a sense to the public life, actively participate in the public community affairs, and make the citizen growth to face the radical changes of our coming society through the learning of civic education when stepping into the new century. These will have a great impact for developing of Taiwanese society.

並列關鍵字

citizen ； civic education ； lifelong learning