During the first partner meeting the partners from the DeCiTeL Project met in the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul at for their first mutual workshop in the frame of the Erasmus+ Teacher Academy.
Coodinated by the Boğaziçi University, the Democratic Citizenship Teaching and Learning (DeCiTeL) project aims to improve teacher education policies and practices across Europe.
During the workshop they defined twelve design principles for qualitative teacher education attentive to the dimension of citizenship and democracy competence.
- Redefining Democratic Citizenship Education
- Modularity and attention to national contexts
- Stimulate demand and design according to needs.
- Advocate and implement the value of DCE as a field of creativity and expression
- Promoting a Whole School Approach
- Open to non formal education and new safe places for DCE
- Value-driven education
- Participatory learning processes at the centre
- Peer learning as a key approach for DCE
- Innovative approaches to the assessment of DCE learning outcomes
- Joint design, joint development, Virtual Exchange, joint recognition
- Keep the project open to research developments and aware of/relevant to policy developments
It is essential for high-quality teaching of democratic competence that teachers also credibly exemplify these values. The formal context of higher education and the socio-political framework conditions are not always optimal for this. For this reason, the participants also developed personas in order to capture the interests, needs and challenges in the school context in the various countries as closely as possible to everyday life.
A second workshop will be planned to consolidate the organisational principles and structure of the teachers academy.
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