THE PHENOMENON OF CIVIC EDUCATION IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL, SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS

The analysis of the philosophical and historical discourse of the emergence of the idea of civic education in a broad geopolitical context made it possible to find that the end of the 20th - the beginning of the 21st century was marked by a growing interest in it in both the countries belonging to the socialist camp and the countries with developed democracy, which resulted in the appearance of a number World Education Initiative for Democratic Citizenship in order to deepen citizens' awareness of their rights and responsibilities in a democratic society. The essence, purpose, objectives and content of civic education in Ukraine at the present stage of the formation of a civil society are clearly defined in the “Concept of the Development of Civic Education in Ukraine” (2018), which emphasizes the importance of forming the civil competencies of a person, aimed at the establishment and protection of statehood and democracy, ability to uphold their rights, be responsible to civic duties, to take responsibility for their own lives, for establishing harmonious relations between members of their family, for the life of a territorial community. The effectiveness of civic education as a factor in the implementation of the foundations of a democratic society in modern Ukraine determines the effectiveness of coverage of all components of education, levels and degrees of education, standards of education, educational institutions and other subjects of educational activity, participants in the educational process, education authorities, and timeliness adoption and introduction of normative legal acts regulating relations by all subjects, engaged in civil education within the national education system.