Some legal knowledge is important for children for the future of nation. I think course curriculum should be revised to include imparting basic knowledge to students.
Kindly share your thinking on this topic
I am really grateful to Houda and Cosmos for the answers and sharing yours views
Thank you my dear friend Jack son for the link provided by you and showing quick response. But the link provides for sports and not on legal studies.
Dear Dr K N Sheth
A right question and an idea worth studying
There is certainly a serious lack of basic concepts necessary for laws, rights and duties in most of the curriculum, the simplest thing we say the law does not protect the fools. How to protect ourselves and future generations from messing around with minds and the facilitations of negative social communication, our individual knowledge can not be enough to guide,
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Houda
I am really grateful to Houda and Cosmos for the answers and sharing yours views
I agree with you, in order to create a safe, educated and informed individual on his rights and duties towards others.
No !!!! it is enough when they follow rules and abide by it without lying !!!
Why law , that is too much . In udergrad may be one course .
Let me express thanks to Nada-A-Rasheed , Isam Issa Omran and Aparna for your response in the matter.
We don't necessarily have to provide every concept as a standalone subject for school children. Such subjects/themes as character education, value education, civic education usually include legal concepts. Legal concepts are also embodied in what parents formally and informally teach their children about how the world functions and how we need to respond to challenges.
Yes we should incorporate the basic legal studies like traffic signs, what constitution is, what is morality, ethics and equity justice., Safe working etc.
In the current global society we live in it is imperative to start teaching a child on the repercussions of not abiding to the law. Peer influences are very strong from the tender age of 7 and over. So my question is when should a child be informed on such a subject? If parents are not influencing their children enough to abide to the law of the home? Who will do this if not the curriculum?
At the university that I teach at, Introduction to Criminal Justice is taught as a core elective. However, in the United States most middle school and high schools teach civics (a type of political science course). In that course the United States Constitution is covered and how the courts are structured is supposed to be explained.
The value of the rule of law can and I think, should be taught at all levels, i.e.. laws should be applied equally, regardless of wealth, cultural, gender, color of ones skin. The importance of learning how to challenge or change laws that are not fair or, over time, show an unfair result in application can be valuable lessons to even young children, if they live in a place that this kind of thought won't put them at risk. Also, the purpose of law can be introduced as a part of many lessons: Why do we line up for recess or lunch? How are seating assignments made? Why do we have certain rules in sports? Is the law meant to give one segment of society more power, or to achieve fairness, to promote safety or freedom?
I think so. Just as everyone must undertake some preliminary studies on physics to understand the physical world we live in
Jaqck Son, Houda and Cosmos 's answers are satisfactory. I feel legal studies should be added right at the pre- schooling level
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