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Rate "CIVIL EDUCATION IN INITIAL CLASSES"

Features of the maintenance of a rate of civil education
in initial classes

The program of a rate is constructed on the basis of a combination of all basic elements of the maintenance of education: knowledge, skills and skills, experience of creative activity and experience valuable orientations. Knowledge which are received by pupils at studying a rate, have the integrated character. They include concepts, terms, the facts and data on the nature, a society and the person. Thus the central place is borrowed{occupied} with the knowledge of the social science which practically has been not submitted in other subjects of an elementary education.

Specificity of a rate of civil education is determined by that in it the main thing, a conducting substantial element is experience valuable orientations, that is the emotional - sensual, spiritual attitude to the world and to each other. The rate of civil education promotes education of the moral, aesthetic, estimated - emotional attitude to the validity, creates conditions for occurrence at younger schoolboys of system of values and world outlook reference points.

Pupils can get and a certain experience of creative activity, and also the major social skills and the skills connected to interaction with coevals, the teacher, parents. Formed at younger schoolboys general-educational and creative skills are not specific, they have the over-subject character, and therefore offered by the pupil at lessons of civil education of the problem are constructed on the basis of communications with training to the letter, and also reading, natural study, mathematics, etc. The rate of civil education is under construction on the basis of a conditional - concentric principle. Four thematic blocks, that is the unit of the program in which universal values, such, as the Earth, Fatherland, family, work, knowledge, culture, the world are reflected, the person are allocated:

• Fatherland. The native land. Russia.
• Knowledge of the world.
• Culture of different peoples.
• Family and the person.

In 1 (2) class each thematic block is studied during one quarter and has the figurative name.

• 1-st a quarter. The house in which we live.
• 2-nd a quarter. In travel on the world.
• 3-rd a quarter. Far away.
• 4-th a quarter. I and my family.

In the Educational methodical complete set "Firebird" four thematic blocks corresponding to four educational quarters also are allocated:

• Heat of the native center.
• Above the Russian open spaces.
• We live in the neighbourhood.
• From the country of the childhood in the world of adults.

Inside the block (quarter) the pupil offers the separate themes substantially connected with each other. All of them reflect various sides of the given thematic unit. First the general question deducing on judgement of a theme as a whole is considered. And then follows more concrete material, allowing to give figurative and versatile representation about the separate parts of the whole making generalized concept. Thus, pupils learn concrete as unity in variety. This approach is characteristic for developing training.