Civic Education is a Right by Tiguidanke Sidibe

Is Civic Education a Right?

ts1326 — 2024-10-06 21:09:43 UTC

Yes!

ts1326 — 2024-10-06 21:09:43 UTC

Civic Education is Right!

No!

ts1326 — 2024-10-06 21:09:43 UTC

Civic Education is not right!!

Informed Citizenship

ts1326 — 2024-10-06 21:09:43 UTC

Civic education teaches students to understand political processes, rights, and responsibilities. Due to their knowledge, they can actively participate in democracy and make good decisions based on the knowledge that they have learned.

Political Equality

ts1326 — 2024-10-06 21:09:43 UTC

It promotes political equality by ensuring that all students understand their rights in a demoratic society. Not matter their background, they will all be taught the same.

Overload in Curriculum

ts1326 — 2024-10-06 21:09:43 UTC

Civic education is a significant topic. It is a lot of understanding and critical thinking, which may lead to an overwhelming curriculum. Due to this curriculum, it could compromise other essential subjects that are also just as important.

Controversy in the Classrooms

ts1326 — 2024-10-06 21:09:43 UTC

With discussions around civic issues, there is a high chance of disagreement in the classroom. Despite them learning about the same topic, the students will still learn different views at home or on social media.

Weighing Controversy in the Classrooms

ts1326 — 2024-10-06 21:09:43 UTC

Students are very impressionable and learn so many different things from different places. The things they could learn would clash with what they could learn in class. The conflict between students would disrupt the classroom and possibly outside the school.

Weighing Informed Citizenship

ts1326 — 2024-10-06 21:09:43 UTC

Informed Citizenship in Civic Education allows students to understand the complex systems of the political process. Adults today do not understand the government and how it's run, but with informed citizenship, children would grow up understanding the basics and learn more as they grow up.

Is Civic Education worth it?

ts1326 — 2024-10-06 21:09:43 UTC

Civic Education could benefit our youth by teaching them the ways of our political system. Allowing them to know the history and how it works would give them an advantage in society and enable them to make critical decisions. More people would participate in voting and engage in public engagement in general. However, it may be too much for children at a young age to comprehend our system entirely, control their opinions, and respect others if they seem to have different opinions.

Weighing Overload in Curiculum

ts1326 — 2024-10-07 10:32:48 UTC

Overload in the Curriculum could trouble the kids in other major subjects that are truly necessary. Even adults nowadays still get confused about politics and know we want our kids to understand it. If civics were an actual subject in schools, it would be a very demanding subject that would have a heavy weight on the students and the teachers.

Weighing Political Equality

ts1326 — 2024-10-10 23:49:42 UTC

Political Equality allows the individuals to have the same opportunity to understand their rights and responsibilities as everyone else. Since everyone understands their rights and democracy, everyone is more inclined to participate in our democracy.

EVIDENCE #1

ts1326 — 2024-10-11 00:34:00 UTC

"If political choices determine the rules that shape distributive patterns, it makes sense to focus first on political, not economic, equality. And if we choose political equality as our orienting ideal—empowering all to participate capably in the life of a polity—a different view of education’s purpose, content, and consequence comes into view" (Allen, pg 11)

EVIDENCE #2

ts1326 — 2024-10-11 00:37:33 UTC

"The court agreed that "meaningful civic participation” and prospects for "competitive employment," not simply minimum-wage employment, de manded a twelfth-grade level of verbal and math skills and similarly advanced competence in social studies and economics." (Allen, pg 9)

EVIDENCE #3

ts1326 — 2024-10-11 01:34:07 UTC

By 2007, when the National Academy of Sciences’ Rising above the Gathering Storm again emphasized the need for

significant improvements in science and technology educationtion, these disciplines had already been consolidated under the umbrella of STEM, a concept that has been employed with equal gusto by education reformers and politicians. "An educated, innovative, motivated workforce—human capital—is the most precious resource of any country in this new, flat world," the report asserts. “Yet there is widespread concern about our K-12 science and mathematics education system, the foundation of that human capital in today’s global economy." (Allen, pg 10)

EVIDENCE #4

ts1326 — 2024-10-11 01:37:15 UTC

"This revision of the liberal arts curriculum is controversial but necessary, for we want to retain the purposes and intellectual methods of the liberal arts, if not all of its content. We still need to cultivate capacities for social diagnosis, ethical reasoning, cause-and-effect analysis, and persuasive argumentation." (Allen, pg 13)