Democracy and Human Rights Education in Europe
This issue of the DARE Blue Lines compiles methodological tools for educators in citizenship education for children aged 8-12.
Continue reading “Position on the Post-Paris-Process in Europe – Apr 2017”
During the DARE general assembly the Open Source platform COMPETENDO presented their tools for facilitators. Competendo is committed to education for the development of key competencies with a focus on civic competencies. Competendo connects and empowers facilitators of different backgrounds and in diverse fields of education. COMPETENDO is partnering with DARE.
STEPS – Survival Toolkit for EDC in Postfactual Societies – first project workshop
The first meeting of the STEPS project took place from 08.-11.June 2017 at the youth educational centre wannseeForum, Berlin.
26 youth workers who are actively working on EDC/HRE with young people in 16 countries met in order to develop a common frame and understanding of what we name as populist challenge to EDC/HRE.
All over Europe we face the rise of so- called populist/national movements who promote a view on the world which can be characterized as white- supremacy, racist- ideology driven and is heavily contesting any views on society which build on a positive vision of inclusive, diverse, peaceful and HR embracing societies in Europe.
In some countries these ideas are already governmental reality: the comrades Orban, Kaczyński and their adepts actively undermining any ideas and work that develop pluralist based view on society with a EU that is rather helpless in counteracting, in a lot of countries with parties and movements already in power positions on the regional and local levels.
A project which exemplary study policies, frames, settings and conditions for citizenship education with children aged 8 to 12 in six European countries Besides identifying policy frames, approaches, concepts and existing practice the project aims at supporting educational staff with exemplary materials which support interactive, fun, innovative, multilingual democratic learning.
Continue reading “Engage – Building together European learning material on Citizenship Education”
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) emphasises the vital role of civil society and academic freedom in bolstering our democracies, and affirms the Agency’s commitment to protecting civil society throughout the EU.
“ENGAGE- learning democracy with children aged 8-12” (VOL II) is a handbook for educators which introduces and recommends a set of 11 different methods clustered in 3 dimensions for democracy learning with children aged 8 to 12 years.
This issue of the DARE Blue Lines compiles the conceptual researches on citizenship education provisions for children aged 8-12 conducted in 6 countries.
Continue reading “Publication: Learning democracy with children aged 8-12 – Vol. I”