Student Activity Workbook (11-13yrs)

SKILLS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY We have traditionally assumed that we all want to live in a civil society; yet we now live in a society where that assumption is really being called into question. Many of us are taken aback by the increasing incivility of our society. It is present in all sectors and cultures of our society and infects all our public modes of interaction and communication – print, radio, TV, and the internet. There seem to be no sacred public spaces or times anymore. Things that we once held dear are now treated as trivial, relationships are disposable, our interactions with each other are too often caustic and crass, and our tolerance for the intolerable and normalizing of incivility seems to be without limits and boundaries. That this is happening in a society that prides itself as being the most advanced in all of human history in knowledge, science, and technology, should be undeniable evidence that a civil society requires more than just the basics of reading, writing an