A Study of Civil Awareness of Senior High Students in Central Taiwan and Relevant Factors

Taiwan is preparing for the 21th century.In order to educate the young generation to adapt themselves to the new society,to develop them into a generation of successful modern men, the Education Reform Committee of the Executive Yuan of the R. O. C. has recently pointed out the main purpose of education reform is to pursue a modernization of education, and that the school education should lay more stress on the cultivation of civic awareness.

The education of civic awareness would be the foundation of a firm and stable society,and thus a necessary step to awell-developed society. High school students will be citizens in the near future, they are so called \"citizens of tomorrow.\" Students start to develop their body and mind in high school. This period of learning and education will surely influence decisively their future citizen life.

Therefore, it is an urgent need to cultivate high school students the sense of civic awareness. This is because they have to face a future society, which will be continually changing and whose politics will be away on the reform. This research is directed toward studying the civic awareness and other relate d factors of high school students, with a view to attaining the following goals: 1.

Understand the individual characteristics and family factors of a high school student. 2. Analyze the relations between his individual background and his sense of civic awareness of a high school student. 3.Study the influence of family factors on a high school student\'s civic awareness. 4. Study the three aspects--- acknowledgement, attitude, and participation of a high school student\'s civic awareness, and their interrelated influence. 5.

Sum up the results of this research, make suggestions for the promotion of civil education and offer references to other academic researches concerned.