Rate "CIVIL EDUCATION IN INITIAL CLASSES"

The rate "Civil education in initial classes" is developed by a group of authors: Svetlana Konstantinovna Tivikova, managing chair of an elementary education of the Nizhniy Novgorod Institute of Development of Education (NIDE), the senior lecturer, the candidate of pedagogical sciences; Tamara Yakovnevna Zheleznova, the senior lecturer of chair of pedagogics and a technique of elementary education NSPU, the candidate of pedagogical sciences; Nadezhda Nikolaevna Demenova, the senior lecturer of chair of pedagogics and a technique of elementary education NSPU, the candidate of pedagogical sciences; Natalya Jurievna Yashina, the senior teacher of chair of elementary education NIDE.

The educational-methodical complete set by civil education has received a positive estimation of regional Advisory council and NIDE's advisory council.

Regional rate for 1-2 classes three-year and 2-3 classes of a four-year-old elementary school. Educational area "Public disciplines".

The rate is created in 1997-99 with assistance of Department of education and a science of the Nizhniy Novgorod area, the Nizhniy Novgorod humanitarian center, the Nizhniy Novgorod institute of development of education.
The rate of civil education in initial classes is considered as a propaedeutic basis for studying a history in an elementary school and sciences about citizenship basically.

The rate creates conditions for primary socialization the child, his moral development, becoming of a spiritual basis and legal culture of the person. The important installation of him is education, on the one hand, feelings of love to the Fatherland, pride of the country, and with another - respect for culture of other peoples, tolerance, the benevolent attitude to other person and acceptance his such what he is, comprehension by children of concepts "advantage", "equality", "validity", "conscience", "honour", "freedom", etc.

The rate of civil education is included in system of training in an elementary school as its organic part and consequently has integrational character, under construction in view of intersubject communications with other subjects. It promotes realization of overall aims of an elementary education, is directed first of all on development of the person of the younger schoolboy, constructed in view of ideas of developing training and assumes differentiated and an individual approach to pupils during training, an opportunity of carrying out of diagnostics of their logic and figurative thinking, speech, reproductive and creative imagination. Close communication of a subject "civil education" with out-of-class work and family education that will allow to solve more purposefully problems of moral education of children, becoming of their outlook, occurrence in their consciousness of necessary valuable orientations is supposed.

The basic ideas of a rate of civil education for an elementary school on the Educational-methodical complete set "Ship" and "Firebird" are connected to self-determination of the child, revealing of sense of the role by him and the value, both in vital space, and in time. The person lives in space, and much can learn about other countries and peoples, about people living on the Earth simultaneously with him. The person exists in time and can learn much about the past, about a history of mankind, he aspires to glance and in the future.

On the first year of training at the rate of civil education the special attention is given the interconnected concepts: the Earth - inhabitants of the Earth, earthmen; the Native land, Fatherland, the state - the citizen of the country; Russia, the Russian; Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhni Novgorod, a muscovite, a petersburger, The Nizhni Novgorod dweller, the city dweller, villages; family, a member of family (the son, the brother, the grandson, the nephew, the daughter, the sister, the grand daughter, the niece). Thus, the child feels itself in this or that role depending on that space which at present is considered as the house.

On the second year of training at the given rate and EMC "Firebird" the main thing for the child becomes comprehension of in time, sensation of a particle of the single whole staying on a joint of the past, the present and the future. The child realizes, that he is closely connected not only to people which live with him during one time, but also with those who was up to him and who will be the ambassador. And the problem of each person - to perceive itself the important component of all mankind which each representative should know and appreciate the sort, the roots, the past of people, notice similarity and distinction between people of the different countries, to see in this distinction an opportunity to understand and be surprised each other and to recognize a variety as the major condition of a life on our planet. In fact only memory, kindness and beauty help the person to remain the Person.

The purpose of civil education in an elementary school - creation of conditions for socializationof the growing person, for its ocurrence in a civil legal society through becoming of attitudes to the world and to itself in it.