School Level: Primary
1.2 Democracy
1.2.1 Basic principles In Abraham Lincoln’s famous quotation (1863), democracy is “government of the people, by the people, for the people”; the…
1.1 Politics
1.1.1 Politics – power play and problem solving Newspaper readers or TV news watchers will find that many media reports on politics…
2.1 Democracy comes to life through its citizens
An example: Parliamentary elections produce winners and losers. The majority forms the new government, the minority the opposition. The former government may…
1. Challenges to the traditional model of citizenship
Since the end of the Cold War, several processes of modernisation that shaped our history for a long time before (see the…
2. Childrens Rights & the Right to Education9
Children’s rights are comprehensively protected by a wide-ranging set of international and regional instruments spanning human rights, humanitarian and refugee law. Children…
1. Politics, democracy & democratic governance of schools
The goal of EDC/HRE, Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education, is to enable and encourage young citizens to participate in…
Part 1 – Understanding democracy and human rights
The idea of education for democratic citizenship and human rights education is not new. Civic or citizenship education has been present in…
Introduction
1. The purpose of this manual The objective of this manual is to support teachers and practitioners in Education for Democratic Citizenship…
