The beginning of the 3rd millenium is characterized by the formation of the post modern society. Change is the main feature of it. We face quite a number of global economical and social, crime, political problems that have over-crossed boundaries of a state or society. Referring to Zaleskienė (2002), solving these problems require changes in our understanding of individual socialization and the necessity to acknowledge a citizen‘s role as most importan in democratic socium. As a result, we come to a new perspective and the necessity to develop citizenship depending on how a person understands the world and acts in it.
After the restoration of Lithuanian independence, when we starte formation of civic society and integration into European Union, the question of citizenship became extremly critical. Citizenship training was defined a priority of the educational reform in Lithuania („Lithuanian Educational Conception“, 1900). An integrated program of teaching citizenship was published in 1994 („General Programs“). Backgrounds of civic society were introduced in school curriculum in 1998. since 1990 the topic has been the focus for discussions by representatives of social studies in Europe:e.g., T. McLaughlin, 1997; M.Montane, Y.Beernaert, 2001; J.P.harpes, E.Meehan; J.M.Ferry, 1993.
Much attention to different aspects of civic education is given in Lithuanian educational literature as well. R. Grigas (2000), A. Šliogeris (2000), V. Jakavičius (1998), V. Gudonienė (2002), V... [to full text]
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2004~D_20040605_133217-41794 |
Date | 05 June 2004 |
Creators | Kažukauskaitė, Džiuginta |
Contributors | Žadeikaitė, Loreta, Zaleskienė, Irena, Merfeldaitė, Odeta, Bitinas, Bronislovas, Barkauskaitė-Lukšienė, Živilė, Zuoza, Rolandas, Žemaitytė, Giedrė, Kvieskienė, Giedrė, Indrašienė, Valdonė, Burvytė, Sigita, Vilnius Pedagogical University |
Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Pedagogical University |
Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
Language | Lithuanian |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Master thesis |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2004~D_20040605_133217-41794 |
Rights | Unrestricted |
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