Civic Education in Armenia: Practices and Analysis for Study during the Distance and E- Learning Course “Laboratory of Civic Education” (October-November, 2017) Tatevik Hakobyan, Yerevan (Armenia)
Education in Armenia has a centuries-old history and is an important factor in the manifestation of nationhood and self-preservation. A civic education and provision of democratic education principles in Armenia are formed at the state level. The main regulatory role in receiving the education by citizens in public and private educational institutions is played by the Legislation of the Republic of Armenia on Education, the content of which is aimed at the formation of a modern personality and citizen that ensures the formation, development and improvement of a civil society and state of law. The civil standards of the Republic of Armenia and legislation are based on the principles of equality, autonomy of will, property and intellectual autonomy stated in the Civil Code of the Republic of Armenia. A number of measures to modernize the civic education and citizenship components are regularly implemented in the Armenian educational system. The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia believes that the civic education based on the development of democracy is a priority for Armenia. The civic education is also integrated into school curricula within the frameworks of the Social Science subject that is processed for education of democratic citizenship and human rights education. The implementation of projects of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Armenia aimed at European educational standards is mainly supported by various foundations and partners from all over the world. The components of the overall educational process in general educational institutions are the formation of a healthy lifestyle and scientific view of the world and nature of students and providing them with a minimum amount of knowledge necessary for independent work, education and independent social activities. In the regions of Armenia a particular emphasis is made on an artistic education and prospects for the development of creative potential both in formal and informal type of education. Prospects for the development of a preschool education in the Republic of Armenia assume the reform of education priorities, i.e. to the formation of self-education skills. Since 2017 a pilot program of dual education has been operating in 4 educational institutions of Armenia, where the theoretical part of the program is performed on the basis of an educational organization, and practical is at the workplace. In 2005 Armenia joined the Bologna education system, which in turn strengthens the development of education as an important factor of consolidation of the statehood.
PRACTICES and MATERIALS: • Education in Armenia: information about public and private higher education institutions. • National Center of Educational Technologies (NCET); the corporate core activities are implementation and consistent provision of information and communication technologies in general education schools. • Armenian educational environment portal provides statistical data on educational institutions of the country, distance learning courses and educational forum. • National Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is an information center of the Republic of Armenia on coordination of interstate exchange of scientific and technical information. One of the successful projects of the center is Innovation Management, the international youth scientific school that aims by means of interactive sessions to acquaint participants with effective mechanisms for commercialization of scientific and innovative projects, features and process from an idea to the finished marketable product, as well as to give the necessary knowledge and skills with regard to protection of intellectual property and management. • Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST); the main mission of the Foundation is to create a favorable ecosystem for stimulating innovation and scientific progress in Armenia and abroad. • National Center for Professional Education Quality Assurance Foundation carries out the quality assurance processes through institutional and program accreditation in primary,
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secondary professional and higher education institutions. The purpose of the National Center for Professional Education Quality Assurance is to assist professional educational institutions in creating a culture of quality assurance in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Armenia. • Tumo Center for Creative Technologies: a forge of a technological progress, which works for free; the initial program is provided for boys and girls aged 12-18 who will be able to choose one of 4 promising areas offered by the Tumo educational program: digital media, games development, animation and website development. • Ayb Educational Foundation is a college of the future, whose objective is to shape a culture of excellence in learning and support the development of Armenian education. • UWC Dilijan College is an international school in Dilijan and a project based on Cambridge IGCSE and IB Diploma academic programs. The school provides the youth and young children with an opportunity to get an education corresponding to the international standards. • Evgeniia Paturian, Armenian civil society: not only non-governmental organizations, the article • Grigorii Eritsian, The role of the European Union in the civil society development in Armenia, the article • The role of civil society institutions in the modernization of the education system in the CIS countries (by the example of the Republic of Armenia), the article • Current problems of science and education development, a collection of materials of the International Scientific Conference held at the Russian-Armenian University • http://boon.am/ is the first Armenian knowledge-oriented online TV.
With kind support of the Federal Foreign Office При поддержке Министерства иностранных дел Германии