OPPORTUNITIES OF THE COURSE IN HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN THE FORMATION OF STUDENTS’ CIVIC COMPETENCE

Abstract

The article deals with opportunities of the course in history of the Middle Ages in the formation of students’ civic competence. The resources that can be used in the formation of cognitive, axiological and procedural components of civic competence are analysed in the curriculum’s content. Civic knowledge on a medieval society, medieval states, their policy and inhabitants’ rights and freedoms of that period etc. are separated and analysed for the formation of the cognitive component. Opportunities which reflect the value of people’s rights and freedoms, the value of God, the value of freedom and independence of people and states, a positive attitude to a state as a condition of people’s achievements, a positive attitude to the uniqueness of the Middle Ages are distinguished for the formation of the axiological component in the curriculum’s content. The curriculum puts forward the skills which provide the ability for students to orient in the public life, to identify various aspects of civic life using works of culture, art and other sources of the
Middle Ages.