Course: Development and Forms of Citizenship

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Course title Development and Forms of Citizenship
Course code KVS/VFO@
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Staněk Antonín, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Konečný Karel, doc. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
Introduction: the concept of teaching citizenship and civic education in the Strategy 2030+; the topic of citizenship in civic education textbooks for the second grade of primary and secondary schools; ancient civilizations and their concept of citizenship (concepts-meanings-traditions); the preconditions for the birth of modern citizenship in the USA and France at the end of the 18th century (the Constitution of the USA, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen in France); the birth and development of civil society in the Czech lands since the 1960s. The development of civil society in the Czech lands and Czechoslovakia in the 1890s (with an emphasis on universal suffrage); the citizen and civil society in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938); the conflicts of the civil democratic system with authoritarian and totalitarian regimes in the Czech lands and Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1989; the building of a new civil society in the Czech Republic in the 1990s; the rights and duties of citizens in the contemporary Czech Republic in terms of the current constitutional order;

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to outline for the students the problems of the initial concept of citizenship in the Greek ancient polis to the contemporary concept of citizenship in the Czech Republic and the European Union. The main focus will be on the acquisition of the basic conceptual terminology associated with the various concepts of citizenship and then on the process of the gradual assertion of basic civil rights in European states and in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially the struggle for universal suffrage. Within this broader framework, the specifics and milestones associated with the assertion of civil rights in the Czech lands and Czechoslovakia will be characterized and defined, including the struggle for suffrage and the overall civic emancipation of women. The last three lessons will focus on the building of civil society in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic after 1989, with an emphasis on defining the rights and duties of the Czech citizen in terms of the legal order.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Banfield Edward. Občanské stnosti: občan, étos a občanství v liberálně demokratické společnosti. Praha. 1995.
  • Popper K. R. Otevřená společnost a její nepřátelé. I. Platónovo zaříkávání. Praha. 1995.
  • Věra Jirásková. (1999). Občan v demokratické společnosti. Praha.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences and Civics for Secondary Schools and Lower Secondary Schools (NA19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching at Higher Secondary School (NA23) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching at Higher Secondary School (NA24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences and Civics for Secondary Schools and Lower Secondary Schools (NA24) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching at Higher Secondary School (NA25) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences and Civics for Secondary Schools and Lower Secondary Schools (NA20) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching at Higher Secondary School (NA22) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching at Higher Secondary School (NA19) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching at Higher Secondary School (NA21) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences and Civics for Secondary Schools and Lower Secondary Schools (NA23) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching at Higher Secondary School (NA20) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences and Civics for Secondary Schools and Lower Secondary Schools (NA21) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching Social Sciences and Civics for Secondary Schools and Lower Secondary Schools (NA22) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter