Civic Engagement

Research Problem, Purpose Statement

The purpose of this study is to determine how curriculum plays an important role in civic integration among students. Based on this article, in democracy and education, John Dewey ([1916]1966) has proposed two radicals. First he stated that all the elites including the citizens can have a life of the mind, and second, that lives that are only of the mind are not adequate to meet the demands of democracy. Therefore he suggested that Americans, as citizens must engage both in thoughts and in actions. He also argued that in order to achieve civic engagement, education is the key for it. In order to achieve this, institutions of learning must play an important role to enhance civic responsibility among students.

Robert Putnam says that older Americans were more engaged in civic responsibility rather than people of the newer generation. He did a research using an independent data sources and then did he came up with such findings. Civic responsibility reflects to a person’s duty in finding an identity of their own role in society. Based on the research carried out in several universities, more students engaged in community services but this does not reflect the role within the society. Many factors affect the students from civic engagement which includes different opinions in politics and the sense of distrust towards political issues. There is also a mandate presented by John Dewey stating that American democracy requires civic engagement in order to realize the potential of its citizens and its communities and in order to make civic responsibility as a success, education plays a vital role in the civic engagement. The authors of this journal had stated their findings clearly in order to make the readers understand a clear cut of what civic responsibility all about. They first started with what does civic responsibility mean and later on moved to the other parts of civic responsibility. These were mainly relating the current society and students and how do they need play their integral part of civic responsibility in the current society. The conclusion that can be drawn from this study is that civic responsibility is necessary to be present in every citizen as it is comprised of actions and attitudes related to democratic governance and social participation. The significance of the findings in the journal as what the authors said is that the role of civic responsibility in citizens despite from politics. What was been said is ‘young people today show an increased involvement in volunteerism and community