This section features contributions on various topics related to European citizenship and cultural diversity. The contributors are teachers, experts, and researchers from Europe and worldwide. The articles are published either in pdf or rtf format, a usual format for the Web. Before reading the articles we recommend you to print them.
Professor Bronislaw Geremek, a former Foreign Minister of Poland and one of the world's most eminent scholars of medieval European history, especially of France and Poland sent us three article: 'Thinking about Europe as a community', 'Europe and the world' and 'Some remarks on Trans-Atlantic Convergences and Divergences'. (English)
Magdalena Bobek from Slovenia encourages teachers to use ICT in their teaching. She highlights the main benefits of ICT in school and gives teachers some hints on how new technologies may be integrated into the curriculum. (English)
Following our online discussion about ICT and its integration into the curriculum, Monica Z. de Krutli from Argentina shares her answers to our survey. As you know, the third myEUROPE Chat was about 'Integrating ICT into the curriculum'. She doesn't believe in swapping the blackboard and chalk for a mouse and a screen. What about other challenges offered teachers by the modern technologies? (English)
As any teacher knows, any new topic starts with a large or small number of new words, which students are supposed to learn, to be able to understand the theme and to talk or/and write about it themselves. Any teacher also knows that it is next to impossible to make students learn all the necessary words: at best, they will learn them by heart mechanically, parrot them back at us or write some test, and then probably forget the new vocabulary. If you have tried checking the new words, say, two or three weeks later, you know what I mean. (English)
The focus of this paper is a challenging analysis of how the roles of teachers and students in different classroom settings are altered as a result of computer-based technologies. (English)
Which traditional games for the 21st century in Europe?, by Guy Jaouen
The world changes more and more quickly today. Fundamental questions concerning the choices before society are not posed, as they should be but often only after they have become a fait accompli. Globalisation has a simple raison d'être for businessmen: 'the individual as a potential consumer and the world as a marketplace'. (Available in English and French)
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