The term civic is an adjective that is used to refer to different issues related to civility or social coexistence within a community. Normally, the term is used to adjective certain types of guidelines ('civic guidelines') of behavior, as well as certain types of knowledge that fall within the school subject known as civic education or civic instruction (although there are many more variants).
The word civic comes from the concept of citizen. A citizen is a person who is considered to be in a mature stage sufficiently developed to act consciously and responsibly within society. Normally, children and adolescents fall outside this category, which then includes the entire rest of the population of a community. Then, civic will be everything that has to do with citizens and with the city environment especially, a place where the concept of citizen is considered to be born.
In this sense, civic education is a type of education that focuses on the study and understanding of what is considered socially accepted; all those guidelines that contribute to social coexistence and that have to do with respect for different human rights as well as with the fulfillment of the social obligations that each citizen has.
Although civic education is one of the most battered and least considered school subjects, in reality it is perhaps the one that perhaps has the greatest direct link with reality (a characteristic that many other school subjects may lack and for which they are criticized). In civic education or instruction, students must learn and know data of great importance, such as how a society is composed, what are the rights and obligations of those who compose it, what is the family, what is the group of friends, what types of ties They occur within a society, the different forms of government and the ways that each citizen has to actively participate not only in politics but also in many more spectra related to society.
