CITIZENSHIP AND EDUCATION
CITIZENSHIP AND EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: Morality, education and citizenship are connected, related in all streams of thought, be they ancient, classic or modern, and ideas are discovered, rediscovered, emphasized, transformed, contested or confirmed, but the need for morality and for educating human beings as social beings remains a constant and obvious concern. Character education and intelligence education must not be apart and must not be forgotten at all levels of formal education, as the only good citizens are good, virtuous, intelligent and educated human beings. This paper includes results of a pilot survey regarding aspects of moral and humanistic education as a necessity in tertiary education, as in formal education at all levels. We believe that greater attention should be paid to humanities and social sciences (philosophy, ethics, sociology, political science, anthropology, history, etc.) and they should be added in coherent and concerted programs of study at the university level, in all programs of study, including areas of interdisciplinary studies, because they are essential for forming a holistic picture of the complex functioning of society and for character education as well.

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