一般而言,公民教育是指通过各类教育活动,使公民增强公民意识和能力,成为现代公民的一种教育实践活动。从这个意义上讲,公民教育一是要培养公民的公民意识和能力,二是要使公民个体在公民意识的引导下做一个合格的现代公民,以体现知行合一。对学校教育教学而言,就是要通过各学科知识的传授培养学生的公民意识,提高学生的公民素养和能力,从而使广大学生努力 In general, civic education means that through various types of educational activities, citizens can enhance their civic awareness and ability and become an educational practice for modern citizens. In this sense, civic education first is to cultivate citizens’ civic awareness and ability, and second, civic individuals should be qualified as modern citizens under the guidance of civic awareness so as to reflect the unity of knowing and doing. For school education and teaching, it is through the transfer of knowledge of various disciplines to develop students ’civic awareness and improve students’ literacy and ability so as to make students work hard