Citizen for Tomorrow. Patterns of Civic Culture is not a
book to memorise or to dictate to pupils. It is not a textbook within an
official syllabus is schools and formal education. It is a resource
book addressed to youngsters, youngster's associations, cultural
associations, educational and cultural institutions, institutions
concerned with training and habilitation, the media and to all those who
– of all age- are yearning for renewed consideration of public issues
after so much suffering and so many ordeals. It is a study of civil
culture as a comprehensive operation including educational institutions,
the family, life-long friends, the environment, civil society and the
media.
One can use this book and of each of its chapters in various ways.
Leaders of groups of youngsters, trainers persons in charge of
instructive media programs should choose whatever is suitable to the
group they are working with, exploit the contents and incite critical
minds and creative work. Some chapters may be changed into audio-visual
methods.
The criterion for evaluation is people's self-conviction. It is
impossible nowadays to build a civic culture, one which would promote
citizenship and appropriate behaviour through dictation or memorization
or filling up of the brain with stereotyped ideologies. Educational
means today are variegated and competitive namely with all the
informational and communication facilities. So much that totalitarian
regimes are incapable of diffusing their stereotypes or of convincing
people of principles in the elaboration of which they didn't take part
or do not understand or cannot criticize, enrich or develop.
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