Abstract:
This article examines the ability of civic education as a concept to respond
to governance imperatives in a modern state. Whether it is in democracies
or non-democracies, governance imperatives require citizen electoral
participation, government stability, and political order which determine in turn,
the success and/or the performance of a government. It could be argued that the
purpose of civic education is therefore to insure the continuity of a society. If this
is the case, then civic education becomes relevant to governance imperatives
when it creates an environment that is capable of allowing citizens to abide to the
principles of truth, inquiry, critical thought which presumably transcend allegiance
to any particular political-legal units.
