School Level: Secondary 2
2.3 Teaching through democracy and human rights – democratic culture in school
There can be no democracy without committed democrats. Each generation receives its democratic heritage, and will hopefully understand and appreciate it, and…
2.2 The cultural dimension of human rights
Human rights that are civil and political in nature spell out what democratic processes are in practice, including freedom of opinion and…
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…
Unit 2 – The key to a dynamic concept of citizenship11
11. Based on Huddleston T. (2004), Tool on Teacher Training for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education, Council of Europe,…
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…
