Civil Competence Research Articles

MUNICIPAL PUBLIC POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM

The article presents an analysis of the main novelties of the reorganization of local self-government related to the proposed draft law No. 40361-8 "On the general principles of the organization of local self-government in a unified system of public power" through the prism of the phenomenon of public policy. The latter is a framework concept related to the civil competencies of state/municipal management, the quality and level of public activity of civil society, which allows influencing the adoption of socially significant decisions. Municipal public policy is more based on the use of tools of intersectoral social partnership, which contributes to building a public dialogue of all active parties of the local community and the formation of an "agenda". The reform proposed by the bill "centralizes" local self-government, significantly changing the principles of its territorial and organizational structure, enlarging municipalities by abolishing the settlement level. The multilayered concept of municipal public policy allows us to judge the optimal ratio of political and administrative properties of state and municipal authorities, combining administrative regulation and the use of forms of public participation of the population. From the point of view of the interests of the development of civil self-organization and "grassroots" public initiatives, the desire to make local self-government bodies the lower level of state power through the concept of "unity of public power" is undoubtedly alarming, which can lead to its administratization, affect the quality of the implementation of the principles of municipal public policy, reduce the opportunities for the subjective formation of an increasingly complex society.

Гражданская культура и социальная активность студенчества СКФО: по материалам социологического исследования

The article deals with the issues of the formation of civic culture among university students of the North Cauca-sus Federal District. The analysis of civic culture in the student environment of the NCFD is based on empirical data obtained in the course of a sociological study conducted by the authors. The work highlights the main problems and factors affecting the formation of civic culture among students of NCFD universities. It is estab-lished that the process of formation of civil competencies of the university youth of the NCFD is nonlinear, re-flecting the fragmentarity of the public consciousness of the student youth. The empirical data presented in the article indicate that the civic attitudes of the youth of the North Caucasus Federal District are rather vague. In the future, the process of forming civil and political attitudes is equally likely to go in different directions.

Which Information Matters? Using Policy Capturing to Understand Psychological Recommendations of Civil Competency

ABSTRACT Courts rely heavily on the recommendations of mental health evaluators when making decisions about competency (e.g., Zapf, Hubbard, Cooper, Wheeles, & Ronan, 2004), including civil competency (e.g., Quickel, Demakis, & Reeve, 2017); however, very little is known about how evaluators arrive at their opinions regarding an individual’s capacity. The current study assessed clinical decision-making using a policy capturing methodology. An ecologically valid sample (N = 47) of predominantly white (87.23%) and female (55.30%) clinicians who were eligible to conduct civil competency evaluations in North Carolina were recruited to examine the degree to which five key factors (functional test data, cognitive test data, personality test data, hospitalization history, and/or medication compliance) influenced clinician competency determinations. Personal insight into one’s decision-making process was also measured. Consistent with previous research, functional test data was weighted most heavily in evaluator decisions, though all five factors were considered. Further analysis suggested variable levels of self-awareness of one’s decision-making policies by participants depending on the factor. In addition, there was high agreement among clinicians when cases were straightforward, but perfect disagreement (half recommending competency, half recommending incompetency) among clinicians when cases were more complex. Implications for civil competency assessment and decision-making are discussed.

CIVIL IDENTITY OF A PERSONALITY: URGENCY OF FORMATION AND DETECTION IN MODERN UKRAINE

The article analyzes features of personality’s civic identity through awareness of relevance of its formation and detection in modern Ukraine. The following methods were used to conduct the research: analysis and generalization of pedagogical and methodical sources in order to identify the range of issues that require scientific and methodical study; methods of comparative analysis, interpretation and generalization of facts; comparative and analytical methods to analyze formation of personality’s civil identity; system analysis for development of ways of forming personality’s civil identity in modern Ukraine. The concepts of "identity", "personal civil identity", "national identity as a component of citizenship", "state identity", "civil and social competences" are characterized. It is noted that civil identity of a personality is related to a person's sense of belonging to a certain state, the signs of which are considered to be presence of citizenship, high level of trust in authorities, fellow citizens, respect, pride for one's own state, patriotism. It is emphasized that the very concept of democracy is inseparably connected with the concept of "civic identity" in the sense that democratic processes in the state, as a rule, depend on the citizens' informed and active civil position. It was found that the markers of civil identity are language (promote Ukrainian the status of the state language, its mandatory use in official sphere, in educational system and mass media activities), state symbols (anthem, flag, coat of arms of Ukraine), calendar of holidays (which honor important events in the history of Ukraine, its outstanding people. Important role of the educational subject "Civil education" in formation of civil competence, which we consider the basis for further formation of personality’s civil identity based on it, has been determined. Fullness of civil competence in the content of 9 branches of education was analyzed, the content was specified through skills and attitudes. Possibilities of educational subjects in formation of civil competence of schoolchildren were represented. Key words: identity, civil identity of a personality, national identity as a component of civil identity of a person, state identity, civil and social compences.

Формирование гражданской позиции будущих сотрудников органов внутренних дел: к поиску результативных методов

Introduction. Current trends in the professional training of employees of the internal affairs bodies imply the formation of an employee's personality, which is distinguished not only by a combination of professional competencies, but also by a civic position, a high level of morality and civil value orientations. The civil position of future employees of the internal affairs bodies in the article is considered as an integrative characteristic of the individual, structurally represented by a number of components: civil competence, attitude to civil society and its place in it, civic activity. The purpose of the work is to study the level of formation of the civic position of future employees of the internal affairs bodies. The empirical study involved 117 1st year cadets of the Faculty of Law of the Voronezh Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Methodology and methods: the study used the questionnaire «Citizenship and Patriotism» (E.G. Galyanskaya, N.A. Getman, E.N. Kotenko), modified in accordance with the purpose and features of the study sample; questionnaire «Assessment of the level of formation of civil identity among students» (T.V. Bolotina). Results of the study and their discussion: the results demonstrated that among the levels of civil position formation (cognitive, emotional, activity) of future employees of the internal affairs bodies identified in the study, most of them have medium and low levels of civil position formation, and its activity component is the weakest. This actualizes the need to develop a pedagogical program for the formation of a civic position of future law enforcement officers, one of the key methods of implementation of which is the example method, which involves the orientation of students to patterns of behavior of law enforcement officers, as well as subjects of the educational process of a departmental educational organization. The formation of the civic position of future specialists of the internal affairs bodies is an integral component of the education of personnel in the spirit of devotion to their Fatherland, contributing to the maintenance of positive and adjustment of negative actions elected by future specialists of the internal affairs bodies in the performance of official duties in the course of educational and professional activities.

The civil norm building role of news journalism in post-civil war settings

This paper seeks to provide an answer to the question of the role that news journalism can play in the building of civil peace as peaceful cooperation in post-civil war settings. Alternatively expressed, how it can utilise its communicative capacity to facilitate and contribute to contextually and culturally appropriate versions of sustainable peace within civil society. Peacebuilding tool kits are wide and varied and often narrowly focus on news journalism as a political actor and its role in political life. We would like to shift the focus away from the ‘political’ to the role that news journalism can play in the (re-)building of an associative and cooperative civil society. Specifically, we believe that news journalism should and can develop for itself an ethos of civil norm building that aims to stimulate a civil consciousness in its audiences which is indispensable for the practical application of the categories of civil norms of peaceful cooperation in everyday life. To understand how such an ethos can be developed we need to recognise three features that are necessary for news journalism to achieve its potential as a civil norm builder: (1) its transformative communicative capacity, (2) its institutional and organisational commitment toward news reporting that exemplifies peaceful cooperation in everyday life and (3) the way it can concretely undertake the application of editorial guidelines in post-civil war settings which exemplify the three basic categories of civil norms of peaceful cooperation: (a) assent to civil peace, (b) substantive civility and (c) building civil capacity and civil competencies.

Factors for formation of social active civil competence in students

Factors for formation of social active civil competence in students

Interface of Law and Psychiatric Problems in the Elderly.

Interface of Law and Psychiatric Problems in the Elderly.

Prospects and foreign experience in the development of the pedagogical process aimed at strengthening active civil competence in future teachers

Today, the tasks of rational use of human capital in our country, increasing social activity in society, the role of young people in the implementation of democratic changes, the study of their duties in the formation of civil society, the use of pedagogical opportunities for the formation of active civil competence in them, the development ofpedagogical convictions for the development of civil culture.

FORMATION OF THE CIVIL POSITION OF UKRAINIAN YOUTH IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESSES

In the article on the base of the methodological requirements of scientific approaches (personal and social, which harmonizes the interests of a person, society and its institutions; culturological, which helps to develop the content of civil education of Ukrainian youth in accordance with specific historical tasks relevant at certain stages of development of the Ukrainian state, democratic and state-building processes of today, the formation of civil society based on the needs of national revival, providing of tolerance between different ethnic groups, multiculturalism; activity-orientated, according to which young people develop skills of social activity, civil and patriotic values tested in practice; axiological, providing an understanding of holistic, multilevel, hierarchical, interdependent and interconditioned process of civil education in the constant development of the system of universal personal and social values; competence, which integrates civil and law knowledge, abilities, skills and experience of civil and political activity with national and patriotic values and attitudes to the conscious observance of law and order in the country), the results of the analysis of research materials on the problem of civic education of Ukrainian youth in higher educational institutions there is clarified the place (as an aspect of political consciousness and legal culture of the personality) and the role (as a regulator of patriotic feelings, spiritual and moral values and civic and political activities of young person) of the civil position of the personality in the context of modern European integration changes in the requirements of competence, tolerance, multiculturalism, intensification of phenomena of mobility and integration of educational programs. Factors of formation and development of civil position of a young person in the educational environment are: circumstances of building and protecting of civil society in the country, the influence of family, media, upbringing activities of higher educational institutions, own activity of youth. Its result are the formed qualities of responsibility, legal consciousness, civil competence. It is concluded that the process of forming an active civil position of young people consists of important components. From the psychological point of view, the upbringing of a citizen and the formation of his or her active civil position is a holistic improvement of the inner world of a person; from the axiological point of view the attention is focused on revealing the content of spiritual values, to determine their role and place in the life and activity of a modern young person, to identify possible ways of their practical use. From pedagogical point of view the solution of these issues must be implemented so that the knowledge, skills and abilities of civil content proposed to youth were deeply perceived by them, found an appropriate understanding, received personal approval and consolidation at the level of feelings, motives, value orientations, concepts, views, beliefs.

Latvian public libraries as a resource, cooperation partner and initiator for promoting media literacy and civic participation in local communities

The aim of this study is to explore the involvement of public library librarians in improving media literacy and promoting civic participation in Latvia. Within the framework of this research, 15 semi-structured interviews with librarians of public libraries were conducted. The main findings indicate that librarians can strengthen information consumption skills by providing lifelong learning opportunities for all members of society. However, several problematic aspects emerge, among them are the lack of methodological materials specifically for library use, difficulty in reaching audiences who need media literacy training and insufficient media literacy skills among librarians themselves. The librarians in the study stated that more up-to-date knowledge of media literacy is required, as technological developments have changed the criteria by which we evaluate information. Libraries also engage in building civil competence, mainly by facilitating different forms of civic participation and ensuring equal access to infrastructure and library resources. Librarians themselves consider libraries to promote local community awareness and strengthen its identity, thus perpetuating a democratic society. Libraries also promote a sense of responsibility towards the community in members of society by organizing events and organizing volunteer work. Therefore, there is the need for public libraries to become more visible in the local communities as promoters of civic participation, engage more in the communities’ life. This requires librarians to take a more active role, and their participation in community events and partnership building. Librarians’ own media literacy and pedagogical skills need to be continuously improved.

Ethical Issues in Caring for Older Adults.

Ethical Issues in Caring for Older Adults.

Civil competency restoration: Initial findings from psychological-based civil competency evaluations.

Civil competency restoration: Initial findings from psychological-based civil competency evaluations.

БОЛАШАҚ ПЕДАГОГТАРДЫҢ АЗАМАТТЫҚ ҚҰЗЫРЕТТІЛІГІН ҚАЛЫПТАСТЫРУ

From the point of view of the modern competence approach in modern education, civil competence is one of the most important learning outcomes. Therefore, the article is devoted to an urgent problem that meets the needs of today. Today, in the conditions ofchanging life, not only flexibility of adaptation is required, but also the need for continuous professional development, including the formation of civil competence of future teachers. The authors analyzed the ways and methods of formation of civil competence of students in secondary schools. Taking into account that the future teacher is tomorrow's young specialist who needs to be deeply involved in the educational process of the school, effective, advanced methods of forming students ' civic competence are analyzed. Based on the coverage of research papers on the research topic, the author's conclusion is given

Social-Emotional and Ethical Learning of Younger Schoolchildren in the Formation of Civil and Historical Competence

The essence of the concepts “historical competence”, “civic competence”, “emotional literacy” is highlighted. It is substantiated that socio-emotional and ethical learning (SEE Learning) is based on three dimensions that correspond to the types of knowledge and competencies that SEE Learning seeks to transfer to students: awareness, empathy, involvement. Three levels of SEE Learning are characterized: personal, social, systemic. Four key learning trajectories have been identified and analyzed to facilitate the acquisition and internalization of knowledge and skills at each of the three levels of understanding at SEE Learning. It is established that educational trajectories are pedagogical components that broadly outline the ways of studying, critically evaluating and interna-lizing various topics and skills of socio-emotional and ethical learning.

РОЛЬ ГОСУДАРСТВА В ПРЕОДОЛЕНИИ КРИЗИСА ГРАЖДАНСКОЙ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ: НОРМАТИВНО-ПРАВОВОЙ АСПЕКТ

Recognizing the existence of a crisis of civil identity, Russian state proclaims patriotic values an integral part of Russian state policy in documents of strategic importance. The need to educate citizenship and patriotism has ceased to be only a theoretical problem, and has found its embodiment in a large number of federal and regional programs. In comparison with the previous decades, the role and importance of civic identity and civic competence in modern Russia are becoming much more important. The civil competence of the student is formed by education-pedagogically organized purposeful process of development of the student as a person, a citizen, the development and adoption of values, moral attitudes and moral norms of societies. National security strategy of the Russian Federation (2015) relates to Russia's traditional spiritual and moral values: the priority of the spiritual over the material, protecting human life, rights and freedoms of the individual, family, creative work, service to the Fatherland, the norms of morality, humanity, mercy, justice, mutual aid, collectivism, historical unity of the peoples of Russia, the continuity of the history of our country. The formation of the civil identity of the young Russian personality forms with the help of Federal state educational standards of primary General, basic General and secondary General education, so the state policy in overcoming the crisis of civil identity devotes a large number of documents and programs to the field of education. The article attempts to trace how through normative and legal acts the state consistently tries to overcome the crisis of civil identity, identified by the scientific and expert community. Following the authors of state programs and the expert community studying the problems of identity crisis, it is noted in the article that the formation of civil identity is one of the most important conditions for the successful development of the country.

Philosophy of Liberal Education: The Principles

This article lays out systematically the principles of modern liberal philosophy of education by explicating the foundations of the Humboldtian (European) model of liberal education. Conceived over two centuries ago, those foundations have never been presented fully and coherently in Russian literature on pedagogy and philosophy of education. Ten principles of the model are identified in terms of modern liberal education theory: (1) lifelong learning, (2) academic freedom, (3) importance of practice and experience, (4) critical thinking and civil competency, (5) competency development instead of knowledge accumulation, (6) priority of general education over specialized education, (7) the concept of learning to learn, (8) self-directed learning effort, (9) political neutrality, and (10) interaction and Socratic dialogue. The second part of this article (release upcoming) sheds light on the key sources and socio-historical contexts that have shaped attitudes towards the liberal education theory since conception until the present day.

Philosophy of Liberal Education: The Contexts

The first article devoted to philosophy of liberal education (Voprosy obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow no 1, 2020) laid out systematically the principles of that philosophy, such as (1) lifelong learning, (2) academic freedom, (3) importance of practice and experience, (4) critical thinking and civil competency, (5) competency development instead of knowledge accumulation, (6) priority of general education over specialized education, (7) the concept of learning to learn, (8) self-directed learning effort, (9) political neutrality, and (10) interaction and Socratic dialogue. In this second part of the article, the liberal model of education is contextualized under two main perspectives, historical and socio-theoretical. The historical perspective is used to discuss the ancient origins of the liberal model, German classical philosophy as a direct origin of its principles, and the trajectories of liberal education discourse elements penetrating Russia’s educational and cultural policy. The socio-theoretical perspective is applied to the context in which the liberal model was conceived (the nascent stage of modernity), the social conditions that led to its crisis (stabilized industrial societies of the modern age), and its relevance in the era of late modernity.

Сформованість громадянської компетентності учнів початкової школи

Сформованість громадянської компетентності учнів початкової школи

Взаємодія в сім’ї як чинник розвитку громадянської компетентності молоді

На основі теоретичного аналізу наукових джерел визначено основні поняття дослідження взаємодії в сім᾽ї як чинника розвитку громадянської компетентності сучасної української молоді. До таких понять віднесено компетенції, громадянську компетентність, взаємодію, сім᾽ю як систему, середовище сімейної взаємодії, батьківсько-дитячу взаємодію, умови середовища. З’ясовано, що громадянська компетентність виконує синтезувальну функцію, оскільки базується на опануванні ключових життєвих компетенцій. При цьому зауважено, що завдання створення умов для її становлення не вирішується засобами лише громадянської освіти – значну роль у цьому процесі відіграє сім᾽я, де середовище сімейної взаємодії є майданчиком для засвоєння настановлень, правил і норм, опанування навичок взаємодії, що може сприяти/перешкоджати розвитку громадянської компетентності, та являє собою «навчальний простір» для набуття, опанування різноманітних компетенцій соціальної взаємодії. Розширено уявлення про сім’ю як соціальну систему стійких взаємодій її членів, функціонування якої здатне сприяти розвитку громадянської компетентності дитини. Обґрунтовано припущення про зумовленість розвитку громадянської компетентності дитини особливостями сімейної взаємодії. Наголошено, що сімейне середовище є водночас умовою і джерелом розвитку соціально-психологічних компетенцій дитини: розвивальне сімейне середовище об’єднує умови, якість, тип взаємодії між членами родини, що закладають основу для саморозвитку, набуття та нарощування соціально-психологічних компетенцій, опанування яких сприяє зростанню громадянської компетентності. Проаналізовано батьківсько-дитячу підсистему взаємодії, визначено умови розвитку громадянської компетентності в сімейній взаємодії, до яких віднесено прийняття, довіру, любов, безпеку, здоровий контроль.