1、1On The Reasonable Demands of The University Students Education Of Civic Awareness（1. Xiangzhu Liang (1981 -), female, Changchun, JiLin Province, China, The City College of JiLin Architectural and Civil Engineering Institute ,Ideological and Political Theory Teaching and Research Department, Lecture
2、r, LLM, research direction: Ideological and political and legal education. 2. Guifang Wang (1951 -), female, Changchun, Changchun, JiLin Province, China, The City College of JiLin Architectural and Civil Engineering Institute, Ideological and Political Theory Teaching and Research Department Directo
3、r, Professor, research direction: Ideological and Political Education. 3. Qian Wang(1964 -), male, Changchun, JiLin Province, China, The City College of JiLin Architectural and Civil Engineering Institute, Foundation director, Professor.） Abstract. Civic awareness is a product of modern constitution
4、 which emerges with the appearance of the modern state. It refers to the conscious awareness that citizens have their own position in the country which can share rights and undertake obligations. Its connotation is a system. The 2education of civic awareness is completed through the combination of s
5、chool, society, family and other social channels. It is a process of socialization and re-socialization. College students are the main part of the construction in the modern harmonious society. The development of college students civic awareness will be significant to construct the harmonious societ
6、y and promote the process of national law. However, there still lacks the sense of civic awareness in the current population of college students, which appears the lack of sense of responsibility and the scarcity of the moral sense. Therefore, it is reasonable to strengthen the demands of college st
7、udents civic awareness education. This paper is a preliminary study on the connotation, significance, modern status, causes and measures of college students civic awareness. Key words: Citizens; Citizenship; College students; Education of citizen awareness The civic awareness refers to the conscious
8、ness of their national status, rights and obligations. It is formed with the concept of citizenship which is a product of modern constitution. The education of modern civic awareness is a topic which the world all focuses on. It is closely linked to 3Chinas modernization which has significance to cu
9、ltivate and promote the civic awareness and construct the harmonious society, while the civic awareness of college students dominates the entire national education. 1 The Content Of The Civic Awareness And The Education Of Civic Awareness The civic awareness and the education of civic awareness are
10、rich in content. Generally speaking, it is performed from the following aspects: First, the subjective consciousness of the citizens is the basic content. The education of civic awareness is a main mask to cultivate the national masters and spirit. Second, the core connotation of civic awareness is
11、the awareness of rights and obligations. The education of civic awareness is to cultivate the awareness of rights and obligations as the core and the good citizens which establish the rule of law as equality, fairness, freedom, justice as the goal. Third, an extension of the civic awareness is the f
12、irst awareness of citizens, the important content of education of civic awareness is to promote the development of social civilization and construct the harmonious society. The specific contents are as follows: 41.The basic contents of civic awareness is the awareness of the citizens. The awareness
13、of the citizens refers to the conscious awareness as the national citizens own their status, value and initiation.1 The French thinker Rousseau came up with the opinion that each member of the nation became a community according to the contract, who is a citizen to share sovereignty with sovereigns.
14、2 Alex Inkeles, the American well-known scholar, especially emphasizes in his study that the civic awareness in the modernization is the basic quality of a modern man who is an active participant in the society. The basic conditions are the participated citizens when various kinds of national mechan
15、ism work normally. The Constitution of China also clearly stipulates the rights to take part in the management of the national society for the citizens. 2. The core of the civic awareness is the awareness of rights and obligations. The famous ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined the core of t
16、he citizen connotation is that the citizen play the social and political role. After he establishes the identity as a member of the nation and the society, he can share the citizen rights and undertake the obligation that relies on the contractual relationship with the society. It can clearly be see
17、n that every citizen should get 5to know that they have the full protection of the Constitution and the laws for their rights and freedom. Chinese law has given many rights to its citizens, such as the personal rights, the rights of life, the rights of health and so on. Especially CPC (Central Commi
18、ttee congress) has reported that the citizens own the political rights of participation, the political rights of expression, the political rights to know, the political rights of supervision and so on. Therefore, the citizens have the civic awareness while they have the awareness of rights. Meanwhil
19、e, the citizens also undertake the obligations; it means that the awareness of rights and obligations are inseparable. There will be no obligations without rights. There will also be no rights without obligations. If you simply focus on the awareness of rights without obligations, the realization of
20、 rights will become empty. But if you simply emphasize the awareness of obligations without the guarantee of the citizens proper rights, then the awareness of rights will become pale and its very difficult to work. 3.The important contents of the civic awareness is the moral awareness of citizens. T
21、he connotation of citizens moral awareness is very rich; it does not only include the social ethic awareness but also include the sense of cooperation, the sense of environment protection, 6and the sense of civilization and so on. Therefore, these can become the epitaxial reading contents of the civ
22、ic awareness. The education of civic moral awareness should concentrate on the unity of the individual moral construction and the overall civil construction, because the education of civic awareness is the overall education, which includes both the improvement of individual moral qualities and the g
23、radual improvement of the societys civil degree. The relationships between them are interacted and complemented. 2 The Significance Of The College Students Civic Awareness Education In the past 20 years, Chinese society has undergone tremendous changes in transition from the traditional industrial s
24、ociety to a modern society. There will accordingly be changes in the peoples life. Meanwhile, it put forward the new demands of the citizens quality and the gradual improvement of the citizen qualities also react to the social progress and changes. There are mainly the following significance to stre
25、ngthen the college students civic awareness education. 2.1. It is conducive to construct the harmonious society. “People-oriented“ is the core of the harmonious society while 7construct the harmonious society is to construct the modern society. It is a complex of the market economy and the promoted
26、democracy. The formation of modern civic awareness is the psychological basis of the modern society. The systematic education of civic awareness can improve the self-quality of the college students which can lead them to devote to the construction of the harmonious society. College students will fun
27、ction as the pioneers to construct the modern society. 2.2. It is conducive for the college students ideological education to transform from the traditional education to modernization. Chinas high education in the past is elite education, few university students were looked on as elite, compared wit
28、h their peers, they have the incomparable superiority who have received high education and have good social status. They engaged in the excellent career. The traditional education mainly focuses on the political task, which drives the contents of the education to pay more attention to the political
29、ideology while ignoring the basic demands of the citizens. With the development and deepening of Chinas Reform and Opening-up, Chinese society has undergone tremendous changes. Society has 8transformed from traditional planned economy to market economy and also shifts from an agricultural society to
30、 industrial society. The development of IT (Information technology) makes the society to transform into modernization faster. During the complicated transition period, high education turned the elite education into mass education, college students have become the ordinary citizens but not the social
31、 elites, while many college students are not aware of this change and still in the misunderstanding of the social elites which causes psychological imbalance. The need for the education of civic awareness is highlighted. It is to form a qualified citizen based on the basic requirements for the basic
32、 orientation and position in the authority of the state, the law, public interests.3 3 The Current Situation And The Analysis Of The College Students Civic Awareness Objectively speaking, the majority of college students have strong sense of civic awareness. They concern about the development of the
33、 Reform and Opening-up; they attach importance the national interests and have a sense of equality and value the production of individual rights; they pay attention to the formation and development of citizen first awareness and so on. However, there are still parts of the 9college students confused
34、 about the concept of the citizenship and their civic awareness is weak. It mainly reflected that they are indifferent to the national sense and the lack of the citizen obligation awareness and the scarcity of the announcement awareness. The main reasons to cause the weak moral awareness of the coll
35、ege students are as follows: 3.1. The mentality of the traditional agricultural society hinders the development of the civic awareness. China has experienced feudal society more than 2000 years. The traditional feudal thought is deeply rooted in the family awareness which greatly weaken the individu
36、al-oriented, self-independent, democratic and free. It advocates Power is all rather than Right is all .It complies with the thinking of obligations rather than the rights-based thinking. The thinking of obligations caused negative psychology to participate in the politics. The rate of political par
37、ticipation is low and they have a strong sense of political apathy. They are not proactive to defend self-interest. This negative psychological precipitation has a negative impact on our nations. And Chinese traditional society infrastructure is a private-contacted society which is only limited to f
38、amily members and acquaintances. It is completely unfamiliar with the 10rules of public area. Especially China is now in a shift from the agricultural-oriented familiar society to industrial and commercial-oriented indifferent society. The mentality of traditional agriculture doesnt easily collapse
39、which will hinder the development of civic awareness. 3.2. The weakening of the excellent traditional culture has melted in the western thoughts, finally results in the loss of the civic awareness. Chinese education have long been opposed to the dregs of the traditional culture, but there also aband
40、oned its essence. A lot of Chinese virtues can not be seen from the modern people. The western culture has gradually influenced since the reform and opening-up. Western thoughts such as the concept of democracy, the rule of law, fairness, justice and effectiveness have actively functioned. But every
41、 coin has two sides, the western culture brings the advanced education theory and thoughts while carries some positive information, such as extreme individualism, money worship, hedonism and so on. With the rapid development of the Internet, the young people have attracted by its diversity and enjoyment of the English culture invasion. They accept the positive opinions and way of life unwittingly. The lack of colleges systematic civic awareness
