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TOWARDS ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP Connecting Young Citizens Across Europe and the World 1 TOWARDS ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP Connecting young citizens across Europe and the world A Connect initiative by the European Parliament, managed by the DG Education and Culture of the European Commission Edited by Mireia Montané and Yves Beernaert BARCELONA- BRUSSELS 2001 Pre- edition may 2001 1 This is the may 2001 pre-edition of this book. The definitive issue will be ready for september 2001. For all correction or modification of this pre-edition, please contact before the 15 june 2001: [email protected] © Universal Forum of Cultures- Barcelona 2004. May 2001. 2 CONTENTS: PRESENTATION....................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 THE EDITORS...................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3 ABOUT THIS BOOK .............................................................................................................................................................................. 3 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 UNIVERSAL FORUM OF CULTURES – BARCELONA 2004. ...................................................................................................................... 8 THE EDUCATION PROJECT................................................................................................................................................................. 10 THEME 9. HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: EDUCATION FOR ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP ........................................................................... 14 PART ONE A THEORITICAL REFLECTION ABOUT ACTIVE AND PARTICIPATIVE CITIZENSHIP ............................. 17 CHAPTER ONE: ISSUES ON PARTICIPATIVE CITIZENSHIP ....................................................................................................................... 18 HUMAN RIGHTS AND EDUCATION. by Dr. Francine Best ................................................................................................................... 18 TEACHER TRAINING AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION : FOOD FOR THOUGHT PRIOR TO EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION by Yves Lenoir, Jean-Claude Kalubi, François Larose, Christian Meyers, Sylvie Houde ............................................................... 23 KNOWLEDGE AND ENGAGEMENT ACROSS CONTRIES: THE IEA CIVIC EDUCATION STUDY. by Dr. Judith Turney-Purta and Dr. Jo-Ann Amadeo...................................................................................................................... 32 BUILDING INTERCULTURAL CITIZENSHIP IN SCHOOL. by Dr. Mercè Roc & Miquel Essomba............................................................. 36 PREPARING YOUTH TO BE GOOD CITIZENS IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY. by Dr. Margaret Ishler Bosse ......................................... 38 EDUCATION AND ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP by Dr. Miquel Martínez ......................................................................................................... 40 VALUES FOR PLURALISTIC DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES. by Dr. Yvonne M. Hébert and Lori A. Wilkinson ............................................ 42 CHAPTER TWO: REFLECTIONS ABOUT PRACTICAL EXAMPLES ............................................................................................................ 55 THE DEMANDS ON TEACHERS OF TEACHING CITIZENSHIP. by Dr. Iréne Drolet................................................................................... 55 EDUCATION FOR ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE by Dr. Lorraine M- Ling ....................................................... 60 CONCEPTIONS OF ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP FOR SECONDARY PUPILS by Jean-Claude Kalubi, Yves Lenoir, François Larose, Caroline Taillon Sylvie Houde and Christian Meyers.............................. 63 PART TWO: HOW TO PROMOTE YOUNG ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND BEYOND69 CHAPTER ONE: SOME THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS BASED ON KEY EU DOCUMENTS USED AS A BASIS OF THE MANUAL .................. 72 THE TREATY OF AMSTERDAM OF 1997 .............................................................................................................................................. 72 THE WHITE PAPER “TEACHING AND LEARNING: TOWARDS THE LEARNING SOCIETY” .......................................................................... 72 TOWARDS A EUROPE OF THE KNOWLEDGE......................................................................................................................................... 72 THE 1997 STUDY REPORT “ACCOMPLISHING EUROPE THROUGH EDUCATION AND TRAINING”............................................................ 73 EDUCATION AND ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP IN THE EUROPEAN UNION........................................................................................................ 76 EUROPEAN PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS AND THE WAY IN WHICH THEY PROMOTE ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP: SOCRATES, LEONARDO DA VINCI AND YOUTH .......................................................................................................................................................................... 79 CHAPTER TWO: AN ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP SCHOOL: A LEARNING COMMUNITY ................................................................................... 85 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................................................................. 85 MAKE A CITIZENSHIP AUDIT OF YOUR SCHOOL................................................................................................................................... 86 KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP SCHOOL OR LEARNING COMMUNITY....................................................................... 88 LINK BETWEEN THE CITIZENSHIP SCHOOLS OF CONNECT 008 AND THE BARCELONA 2004 ............................................................... 93 CITIZENSHIP SCHOOLS, LEARNING COMMUNITIES VERSUS CITIZENSHIP SITES...................................................................................... 95 CHAPTER TREE: EUROPEAN OR TRANSNATIONAL PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS: EXEMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE. ........................ 96 POLITICAL CITIZENSHIP & HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION &VALUES EDUCATION; CIVICS EDUCATION .................................................... 97 CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP .................................................................................................................................................................. 103 INTERCULTURAL CITIZENSHIP ......................................................................................................................................................... 109 EGALITARIAN CITIZENSHIP .............................................................................................................................................................. 121 ECOLOGICAL CITIZENSHIP .............................................................................................................................................................. 126 EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP ................................................................................................................................................................. 129 GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP...................................................................................................................................................................... 135 CONCLUSION: TOWARDS MULTIPLE CITIZENSHIP.......................................................................................................................... 141 CHAPTER FOUR: SOME OTHERS EXPERIENCES ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP.2 ............................................................. 142 THE YOUTH PARLIAMENT IN FINLAND ............................................................................................................................................. 142 CO-DECISION VIDEOCONFERENCE: EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND COUNCIL IN ALDEN BIESEN – EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN OMAGH 144 THE................................................................................................................................................................................................ 147 THE SCHOOL ADOPT MONUMENT SHEME OF THE NAPLES 99 FOUNDATION....................................................................................... 152 YOUTH PARTICIPATION AND THE METAMORPHOSES OF EINDHOVEN: AN INTERNATIONAL THEATRE/CONFERENCE PROJECT FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 155 VIVIM PLEGATS – WE LIVE TOGETHER.............................................................................................................................................. 160 ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION ....................................................................................... 161 SIXTH PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE YOUTH OF BARCELONA by Barcelona City Council.....................................................................
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