Jaunesniojo mokyklinio amžiaus mokinių teisinio ugdymo turinio bendrojo lavinimo mokykloje analizė
Analysis of legal education of primary grades pupils in the comprehensive school

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses issues of legal education of primary grades pupils in the comprehensive school. Textbooks of grades 1st through 4th and scientific and legal publications of law were used for the analysis. Content of the textbooks was analyzed on the basis of the criteria identified by the theory of law. The analysis of textbook content was based on criteria defined in terms of areas of law (administrative, criminal, labor, civil, constitutional, family, etc.), methods of presentation of legal information (knowledge of law, situations of law, decisions in law), and legal education forms (verbal, practical, and visual). The analysis reflected content and form of the legal education found in textbooks. Employed as assessment criteria were knowledge of law significant with the regard to legal sophistication. The results of the study allowed for the following conclusions to be made. Legal education is in the sphere of two areas of science - law and educology. The construct of legal education has two-dimensional structure. It consists of two components: knowledge of law related to the formal school content of education (acquired at school) and general knowledge of law unrelated to the school (acquired by means of self-education, social learning, in the family and in other immediate environment). The system of legal education consists of legal training of educators, legal education of pupils, and legal education of parents. In the primary grades of the comprehensive and the special school there is no special subject covering bases of the legal system of Lithuania and introducing pupils to the legal responsibility; therefore, children experience little development in terms of the sense of responsibility, legal consciousness, and legal culture. Textbooks of primary grades lack special chapters presenting special knowledge of law.

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