The purpose of this paper is to reconsider that civil literacy related to citizenship,
economic literacy, and social literacy are distinguished from academic literacy as research
of politics, economics, and sociology. First, I used the Isoyama’s paper which analyzed
"Play by the Rules" in Alabama, U.S. It showed that it is more important than acquiring of
the knowledge and a concept about law for students to use. Second, I used the Mine’s paper
which analyzed "Project Citizen" by the Center for Civic Education, U.S. It showed that
students supervise the present public policy and students proposes a new policy. Besides,
it showed that students need not only to acquire as knowledge the political literacy which
they should have as a citizen, but also to enhance it directly through use of political skill.
In social studies, this did not mean that the purpose is acquisition of the knowledge and
theory of law, but this showed that students can be developed by the curriculum which
aimed at the encourage of civil literacy which raises the perspective and thinking as a
citizen and an attitude, or the study method. Consequently, the aim of social studies
education is the encourage of perspective and thinking for social participation beyond
memorization of academic knowledge. The future direction of this study will be to clarify
the method of gradual, systematic encourage, and direct instruction of social participation
skill which can utilize civil literacy in real life.