Citizenship at National, Regional and International Level: Approaches, Studies

and Debates

27th March 2015

Citizenship Learning Seminar

Santiago de Chile

David Kerr Senior Teaching Fellow University of Bristol Director of Education Citizenship Foundation Visiting Professor of Citizenship Birkbeck College University of London david.kerr@citizenshipfoundation.org.uk

Aims of this presentation… To answer some key questions: Democratic Citizenship, Human Rights and Intercultural Dialogue

1.   Why now? 2.   What do we know? 3.   For whom - who benefits? 4.   What are the challenges and debates? 5.   What helpful developments are there?

Democratic Citizenship, Human Rights and

Intercultural Dialogue – Why now?

‘..the new challenge of how to prepare young people for democracy in contexts that are quite different from those that have been known in the past.’ Kerry Kennedy

Climate Change/Global Warming

Migration of Peoples

Democracy in Europe

Combatting violence and extremism

Global Capitalism and Jobs

Student Voice

New and Unknown Challenges

Global Responses

Democratic Citizenship, Human Rights and

Intercultural Dialogue – What do we know?

Key landmark studies

•  IEA Cived Study 2001 •  IEA ICCS09 + regional reports •  Eurydice reports •  CELS 2001 to 2015

What to address in the DCHRE ‘Contexts’

Curriculum  Core  knowledge  Key  skills  ‘Big  ,  controversial  issues’  

School  community  

Par=cipa=on  Decision-­‐making  Voice,  leadership  Teamwork  

Wider  communi=es  

Par=cipa=on  Decision-­‐making  Big  issues  Engage  with  adults  

Competence Based

Civic Competence

Dispositions/ Behaviours

Affective (Doing/Active)

Cognitive (Knowing)

Knowledge Skills Attitudes Values

Democratic Citizenship, Human Rights and

Intercultural Dialogue – who benefits?

6 Key Sets of Actors and beneficiaries…

1.  Pupils/students 2.  Teachers and support staff 3.  School leaders and senior staff 4.  Parents and community

representatives 5.  Wider society

Democratic Citizenship, Human Rights and

Intercultural Dialogue – what are the challenges and

debates?

Some key challenges 1.  Definition 2.  Coherence 3.  Status 4.  Policy will 5.  Bridging the ‘implementation gap’ 6.  Evidence base - monitoring and

review 7.  Promote outcomes and benefits

Key debates…

1.  Perspective 2.  Measurement 3.  Methodology 4.  Interpretation and reach 5.  Costs and benefits 6.  Gaps

Trial and Error!

Democratic Citizenship, Human Rights and

Intercultural Dialogue – what are helpful developments?

Further studies and evidence to come…

•  IEA ICCS16 •  CoE Charter review •  CoE Competence Framework •  CELS further waves

Framework for Action Council of Europe Charter on

Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education – adopted by the Commıttee of Mınısters on 11 May 2010

Policy Tool - Strategic Support for Decision Makers

Competences Framework for DCHRE and intercultural dialogue

“Democracy Generation” EDC/HRE Joint Project in Turkey

Turkey  Celebrate  

EC/CoE Pilot Project Training for Teachers on

Handling Controversial Issues

Global Competence PISA 2018

•  Increasing globalization •  Interconnectedness •  Multimodal forms of communication •  Multicultural and multinational learning

and work environments •  Need to prepare learners for our 21st

century, global community

What kind of education system do we need? What kind of society do we want? Chilean writer

Thank you And good luck

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