University
of Prešov, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Department of Civics and
Ethics, Slovakia
Abstract:
Social and cultural changes
related to the globalization processes require new approaches that accept an
increase in social uncertainties and environmental risks and that reflect a
crisis in the values of consumer society within the civic education at the
university level. Strengthening the autonomy of the individual and institutions
relates to the increase in the significance of education for man and society.
Acquiring the necessary cultural and environmental attitudes and behavioral
norms within civic education leads to the students' formation of planetary consciousness,
in which the idea of preserving life conditions on earth for future generations
becomes the central and universal value. The gradual transformation of
post-modern society into trans-modern society will lead to the strengthening of
the civic dimension of the human existence and to the recognition of all-human
values in the newly forming world view. The goal of university education is to
prepare special programs that should lead to the linking of school and
practical life. Thus the meaning of education and new ways of learning
throughout life increases, whose goal it is to form the individual's key
competencies enabling him a civic integration into society and a realization of
high-quality life in it.