公民的積極參與是現代公民發展的基本元素。九七回歸後的香港，公民發展出現新的路向，社會朝向政治整合、經濟朝向知識轉型和全球化的發展。當中，學校的民主公民教育扮演一定的角色。學校公民教育的非正規課程，能夠提供實踐性的公民參與學習。文章透過對學校學生會選舉參與活動的探討，嘗試了解學生公民學習的情況。參與性的公民學習能夠提高學生的民主參與意識和能力。但是，學校的民主公民教育需要進行革新以配合社會的未來發展。Participatory citizenship is a recent development trend of modern citizenship. Democratic Citizenship Education (DCE) in school has an important part to play in post-1997 Hong Kong society, facing important developments of political integration, of knowledge-based economic restructuring and of globalization. The informal curriculum of school civic education helps provide practice-based learning in citizenship for students through students' association activities, which help raise their democratic awareness and related civic competencies. In addition, the DEC programme needs to be reformed to cope with future changes of the society.[Copyright of Journal of Youth Studies is the property of The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups at http://yrc.hkfyg.org.hk/]
