Constitutions are the backbone of a nation, stating the main rules and witnessing what the fundamental lines to be understood, accepted, put into practice must be. It is frequently looked at with a lot of respect, but not with similar awareness.
People know it is the pivot of our civilization. Unfortunately, though, each individual has his first contact with it not so early in life because of its dense complexity. There is the point: we should make it as close as our native language is to each of us, since it is ‘the language of life’ that supplies us with strength and balance in a challenging game of actions and reactions.
Through his or her professional experience every teacher would surely find some new strategy to simplify what is contained in each article, paragraph or line, melting concepts into knowledge and competence thus giving the practical ability that is necessary to decode and face complex events.
It has to be taught through sounds and images such as songs, comics, cartoons, leaflets, powerponit presentation and learning objects. Among them every educator could select what he/she needs for an effective dialogue on the Constitution, obviously selecting the articles whose content can be of major interest to them, leaving the more abstract lines for the years to come.
The explanation must be less complex than apparently needed for the younger students, technical and intellectual for the older ones, but we must tend to form the real European citizen who in time might feel the need to have, in his drawer near his bed, his socio-political biblical list of “rights and wrongs” to reflect on.
