CIVICS AND ETHICAL
EDUCATION Guideline
Ismail Abdi Yassin
Course Objectives
General objectives
After the successful completion of this modules students will be able to:
 Conceptualize what morality, ethics and civics mean.
 Comprehend the goals of civics and ethics as well as the competences of a good citizen.
 Conceptualize promotion and life skills, responsibility and citizenship.
specific objectives
After the successful completion of this chapter, students will be able to:
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Define civic education, ethics and morality.
Differentiate civic education from ethics.
Discuss the goals of civics and ethics.
Enumerate and explain the competences of a good citizen and evaluate yourself in line
with these competences.
Use critical thinking, interpersonal skills and ethical theories to make judgements on
moral issues and dilemmas.
Discuss the relations between society, state and government.
identify the concept of democracy and democratic system.
understand human and democratic rights to be respected in democratic system.
appreciates the meaning of diversity and how to accommodate differences within
diversity.
 understands the meaning of Foreign Relations.
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
 explain the meaning of self-reliance.
 identify the significance of self-confidence.
 understand the importance of learning from other.
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
explain the meaning of patriotism.
understand the relations between patriotism and citizenship.
identify actions or practices that can damage patriotism.
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
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understand the meaning of responsibility.
identify different types of responsibilities.
appreciate the actions of honesty,
loyalty and integrity at different responsibility levels.
enumerate discharging citizenship duty
Model one: Introduction:
This chapter is an introductory part where some terms are conceptualized. Terms/words like
civic education, citizen, citizenship, ethics and morality will be defined. Moreover, the
relations between civics and ethics, goals of civics and ethics and competences of a good
citizen are the subject matters of this chapter.
1 Understanding Civics and Ethics
1.1 Defining Civics, Ethics, Morality
1.2 Significances of Civics and Ethical education
1.3 The Definition and Nature of Ethics and Morality
1.4 The Importance/Goal of Moral and Civic Education
1.5 Ethics and Law
2
Democratic System
2.1 What is Democracy
2.2 Types of democracy
2.2.1 Direct democracy
2.2.1.1
Features of direct democracy
2.2.2 Indirect democracy
2.2.2.1
2.2.2.2
2.2.2.3
Representative democracy
Parliamentary democracy
Presidential democracy
2.2.2.4
Combined parliamentary and presidential democracy
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
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The Meaning of Human and Democratic Rights
Diversity
System of Government in Somaliland
Foreign Relations
Promotion and life skill
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
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Meaning of life skills
Leadership
Teamwork
Team roles (thinkers, doers, careers and leaders)
Self-Reliance
The Meaning of Self-reliance
Self-confidence
Self-esteem
Wrong Self-perception
Self-competence and the Readiness to Learn from Others
Responsibility
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
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The Meaning of Responsibility
The Meaning and Necessity of Promise
The Meaning of Honesty
Loyalty and Integrity
The Necessity of Responsibility
The Meaning of Natural Resource and Historical Heritages
Government
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.4.1
Understanding Government
What is Government?
Purposes and Functions of Government
Types of government
Democratic government
5.5
5.6
6
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
6.11
6.12
6.13
6.14
6.15
6.16
6.17
Forms of government (republican, union and monarchy)
Importance of government
Patriotism and citizenship
the Quality of a Patriot
Somaliland history
The Duties of a Patriot Citizen
Understanding Citizenship
Defining Citizenship
Theorizing Citizenship
Citizenship in Liberal Thought
Citizenship in Communitarian Thought
Citizenship in Republican Thought
Multicultural Citizenship
Modes/Ways of Acquiring and Loosing Citizenship
Ways of Acquiring Citizenship
The Modes of Acquiring Ethiopian Citizenship
Dual Citizenship
Ways of Loosing Citizenship Statelessness
National flag
National anthem