THE NEW CONCEPT OF PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION IN KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

The state policy in the sphere of legal education of recent years was based on planning documents without a certain conceptual approach. At the same time, these programs are mostly propagandistic in nature and have proved to be ineffective, which is due to the presence of a number of systemic problems of the implementation of state policy in the field of legal education.

In modern conditions, it is necessary to develop a conceptually updated state policy in the field of legal education, which would be based on completely different institutional approaches. This model requires active participation of nongovernmental organizations (NGO), business community, and mass media. The authors have tried to demonstrate crucial importance of the participation of public (civil) forces in the implementation of the future policy in the field of public legal education. The authors also pointed out the problems of mechanisms of implementing policy in this field and noted the importance of alternative sources of funding in addition to budget resources.

In this article a team of researchers developed common approaches to the development of the future Concept of public legal education, which sets a fundamental goal - to shape a law-abiding citizen with active citizenship. The purpose requires the formation of active, law-abiding behavioral attitudes which is reflected in the tasks and general approaches of legal education.