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Citizenship Teaching: citizenship teaching education has come to mean much more than the teaching of the facts of governmental structure and function, and in a broad sense the promotion of good citizenship teaching can be considered the major and all-pervading purpose of education. In a free society, schools have a particularly heavy responsibility. They must teach the student to understand and believe in democracy as a living, changing process rather than as a set of rigid beliefs to be memorized without question.Results of the various studies substantiated what educational reformers had been claiming for years: traditional subject matter presented by traditional methods alone held little promise for improving students' chances of attaining the aims of citizenship teaching education. A citizenship teaching study made in Detroit, Mich., pointed out that the attitudes and understandings of democratic citizenship teaching are acquired as a result of a many-sided process. The report of the study cautioned that until more certain insight was gained, the schools should maintain a balanced relationship among the techniques of teaching democracy. The Detroit study found that the attributes of democratic citizenship teaching were developed in five ways: by the intellectual process, through participation in democratic activities, via emotional appeals, as a result of cultural assimilation in intimate home and community groups, and as the products of emotionally balanced individuals.
citizenship teaching in a Federation. In a federation such as the United States, dual citizenship teaching in the nation and a constituent state is inevitable; but this seldom leads to serious problems, as control of citizenship teaching is the responsibility of the national government. The Soviet Union, at least nominally, is an exception to this rule: both the USSR and the constituent "union republics" may confer citizenship teaching. |
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