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author: Valentyna Bobrytska


Urgency of the research. The positioning of Ukraine as a sovereign, democratic, European country determines the priorities of contemporary development of domestic education based on orientation towards national values, in particular the values of civil society.

Target setting. Nowadays, civic education in Ukraine has a sufficient space to manoeuvre in the formation of civic identity, legal and social ties amongst the person, society and the state, as well as in the formation of civil competencies of a citizen.

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Many Ukrainian scientists studied the formation and development of civic education in independent Ukraine, including A. Zuikovska, S. Kiselev, S. Riabov, V. Saveliev and others.

The research objective. The study of the phenomenon of civic education in the philosophical, social and educational contexts should be carried out in the context of identifying the specifics of the formation of the idea of civic education in the historical and philosophical genesis; elucidation of the essence, purpose, tasks and content of civic education in Ukraine at the present stage of formation of civil society; analysis of civic education as a factor in the implementation of the foundations of a democratic society in modern Ukraine.

The statement of basic materials. The analysis of the philosophical and historical discourse of the emergence of the idea of civic education in a broad geopolitical context made it possible to find that the end of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st century was marked by a growing interest in it in both the countries belonging to the socialist camp and the countries with developed democracy, which resulted in the appearance of a number World Education Initiative for Democratic Citizenship in order to deepen citizens' awareness of their rights and responsibilities in a democratic society. The essence, purpose, objectives and content of civic education in Ukraine at the present stage of the formation of a civil society are clearly defined in the “Concept of the Development of Civic Education in Ukraine” (2018), which emphasizes the importance of forming the civil competencies of a person, aimed at the establishment and protection of statehood and democracy, ability to uphold their rights, be responsible to civic duties, to take responsibility for their own lives, for establishing harmonious relations between members of their family, for the life of a territorial community.

The effectiveness of civic education as a factor in the implementation of the foundations of a democratic society in modern Ukraine determines the effectiveness of coverage of all components of education, levels and degrees of education, standards of education, educational institutions and other subjects of educational activity, participants in the educational process, education authorities, and timeliness adoption and introduction of normative legal acts regulating relations by all subjects, engaged in civil education within the national education system.

Conclusions. The prospects, opening due to the introduction of civic education in today's democratic Ukraine, provide a great opportunity for the development of democratic rights, responsibilities and active participation of members of society in the social, political, social, economic, legal and cultural spheres of life at both national and at international levels.

Keywords: civic education, civil competences, civil society.

 

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