A Comenius 2.1. teachers’s training project on “Teaching Active Citizenship with ICT in a Globalized Europe”
A group of teachers representing a varied range of educational institutions (universities, teachers’ training institutions, secondary schools, educational web sites…) from different European countries is planning to start up a project on Citizenship in the next academic year 2006-2007.
A preparatory visit was hold in Worthing (UK) in September 2005. There it was decided that the International Education Forum will be used as a means of communication of the project.
A “Teaching Active Citizenship” website will be set up during the first year of the project. This will involve all project members writing an overview of how the subject is taught in their own country. They will also contribute one or more case-studies. These studies would be published in English and in the language of the author.
A main feature of the project will be to establish a team of “associates” from countries outside of the European Union. We have already been in contact with teachers from Russia, United States or Australia. We will try to get in touch with some teachers from an Arabic or Muslim country. These associates will be commissioned to write an overview of how the subject is taught in their own country. They will also contribute one or more case-studies. The project group believes that in a more and more globalized Europe, a non European perspective is needed to deal with teaching citizenship.
The website will also contain a collection of reviews of resources to teach citizenship (in the language of the member of the project).
In the second and third year the project group will start providing some good practice examples of how active citizenship could be taught. We would also start planning the five day residential course that we need to deliver in the third year of the project. This will be the main priority in the third and last year of the project.
Teachers from all over Europe can ask for Comenius 2.2. grants to attend this residential course.
These are the teachers and institutions involved in the project:
Andrew Davies (Varndean School, UK) - Coordinator Caterina Gasparini (Istituto Tecnico Industriale, Italy) Juan Carlos Ocaña (Institution: IES Parque de Lisboa, Spain) John Simkin (Spartacus Educational, UK) Janos Blasszauer (Batthyany Lajos Gimnazium, Hungary) Vicente López-Brea Fernández (Liceo Español "Luis Buñuel", Paris, France) David Richardson (Högskolan i Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden) Pedro Reis (Superior School of Education, Santarém, Portugal)
