A Critical Review on the Achievement Standards for Ethical - Civic Education in the Moral Education Curriculum

The series of textbooks of the Integrated Course of New College English (Second Edition) was conceived at the end of the last century. The first edition was published at the beginning of the new century and the second in 2010. Due to the long period of time, the selection of materials in the textbook is not well integrated with the localized Chinese culture and is missing content closely related to traditional Chinese culture and Civic Education, etc. The paper puts forward constructive suggestions on how to use the Integrated Course in an innovative way. Firstly, from the perspective of moral education, it is suggested that the moral education elements in the textbook be sorted out and matched with socialist core values and that the ideological and political education of the curriculum is achieved through explicit interpretation of the unit themes and implicit infiltration into language ontology teaching. Secondly, through teaching for learning and learning for research, students are encouraged to participate in innovative and entrepreneurial projects for university students, realizing the extension of university English classroom teaching to extra-curricular research, deepening the content of the teaching materials, and thus cultivating students' innovative thinking and entrepreneurial abilities.

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Adding Focused Life Skills Training to a Civic Engagement Program to Boost Life Skills Competencies in Youth

Journal of Youth Development ◽

10.5195/jyd.2016.448 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Brian Brandt ◽

Jan Klein

Keyword(s):

Civic Engagement ◽

Civic Education ◽

External Validity ◽

Life Skills ◽

Skills Training ◽

Future Research ◽

Education Curriculum ◽

Life Skills Training ◽

Training Content ◽

Internal And External Validity

This paper highlights the impacts of a revised curriculum which incorporated a strong life skills focus into an existing civic education curriculum (for 4-H youth). The revised curriculum resulted in actual youth gains in life skills competencies. The study also explored the effect of volunteer facilitators in the implementation of an added life skills training component. Despite some significant limitations to the internal and external validity of the study, preliminary indications were that adding explicit life skills training content does in fact lead to an increase in life skills competencies. This was clearer in cases where volunteer facilitators fully implemented the additional content versus implementing none or only part of the life skills training. The limitations of the study and suggestions for future research are outlined in the conclusion.

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The Environmental Education Dimensions for Sustainable Development

Journal of Legal Studies ◽

10.1515/jles-2015-0007 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 16 (30) ◽

pp. 18-30

Author(s):

Martian Iovan

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Environmental Education ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Moral Education ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Civic Education ◽

Environmental Ethics ◽

Human Right ◽

Civil Values

Abstract Based both on a historical approach regarding the evolution of the environmental education between 1960 and present days, and on empirical research as well, the author proves that the efficiency of the environmental education could be much higher if included within the broader sphere of moral and civic education and if it is driven by a more extensive ideal sprung from the fundamental human right to a clean and well preserved environment, by the contemporary moral and civil values. The author pleads and motivates for an increased capitalization of the humanities and social sciences, of art, of environmental ethics and aesthetics in shaping “the ecological personality” of the tomorrow people. When shaping these personality traits through environmental education activities, one must emphasize the importance of practice and applied actions aimed to protect the environment, and in general, the practice of civic-moral education methods.

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