The content of the education of legal consciousness in a comprehensive school: Lithuania’s experience

Modern liberal democracy is inseparable from the conviction that the protection of natural human rights requires law not only as a social institution which regulates relationships of society members, but also as an institution that leads to the peaceful development of these relationships. However lately, the growing tensions among the countries reveal the decline of this conviction. The question is whether liberal democratic societies, the members of which are mostly grown under conditions of freedom and peace, are strong enough to face these threats? This newly developing social situation requires a thorough research of a state of legal consciousness. The majority of members of modern society acquire comprehensive education, which, inter alia forms the framework of legal consciousness of the younger generation and thus enables its representatives to base the social interaction on the respect for the dignity of other human being. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the features of the content of the education of legal consciousness in a comprehensive school.