COMPULSORY ELECTIVE SUBJECTS INTO THE SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRATIC VALUES

Abstract

The paper is based on the standpoint that the school context is an important pillarin the acceptance and adoption of democratic and universal values of the community. In thatsense, there has been analyzed a meaning of democratization of the contemporary educationand an introduction of compulsory elective subjects into the school system. Accordingly, therehave been analyzed possibilities and assumptions of the influence of both Religious instructionand Civic education instruction on the development of national and cultural identity and pro-European values (interculturalism and human rights), as a way for overcoming the modelof “tradition or modernity” with the model “tradition and modernity.” Presented theoreticalassumptions are supported by the results of empirical researches regarding the analysisof effects of the teaching implementation of the subjects at the secondary school level ofeducation, with special emphasis on examining the attitudes of pupils who attend compulsoryelective subjects towards the universal values.