Division for Citizenship and Human Rights Education

EDC/HRE Pack

 

  • The EDC/HRE Pack is a collection of practical instruments specifically designed to provide support to all those involved in education.
  • The EDC/HRE Pack provides documents, strategies and approaches that are intended to help bridge policy and practice. The EDC/HRE Pack is a coherent instrument that is made up of a series of tools and support documents, which address the development and implementation of policy and practice for EDC and HRE across all education sectors.

Key issues for EDC Policies (Tool 1)

 

Target audience:
policy makers at all levels

Tool:

Strategic Support For Decision Makers – Policy Tool for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights

Support materials:

Glossary of terms for Education for Democratic Citizenship (French, Azeri, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian)

All-European Study on Policies for Education for Democratic Citizenship, 2004 (French)

Tool on Key issues for EDC policies, 2004 (French)

Adopted texts on EDC/HRE

Democratic Governance in Education (Tool 2)

 

Target audience:
policy makers at all levels
education leaders and administrators,
school leaders and principals,
student organisations and councils,
parent and community organisations

Tool:

Democratic Governance of Schools (French, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Swedish and Ukrainian. An excerpt of the publication has been translated in Swedish (see “exempel fran Nyckelomrade 2: Värdegrunedsbaserad undervining”).

Support materials:

From student voice to shared responsibility. Effective practice in democratic school governance in European schools (2007)

The school: a democratic learning community (2005) (French)

Advancing Democratic Practice : A Self-Assessment Guide for Higher Education (to be published in 2009)

How all teachers can support citizenship and human rights education: a framework for the development of competences (Tool 3)

 

Target audience:
teacher trainers,
teachers,
school leaders and principals,
curriculum coordinators,
NGOs and community organisations


Tool:

How all teachers can support citizenship and human rights education: a framework for the development of competences – click here for an overview of this publication

Click the following links to download the tool in various languages:

English, Albanian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian

Support materials:

Tool on Teacher Training for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education – support materials (French, Azeri, Dutch, German, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian)

 

Quality Assurance of Education for Democratic Citizenship in Schools (Tool 4)

 

Target audience:
school leaders and principals,
curriculum coordinators,
teachers,
teacher trainers and education leaders and administrators.

Tool:

Tool on Quality Assurance and Self Evaluation in EDC (English, French, Albanian, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian)

Support materials:

Introducing Quality Assurance of Education for Democratic Citizenship in Schools- A comparative Study on Ten Countries (2009)


School-Community-University Partnerships for a Sustainable Democracy: Education for Democratic Citizenship in Europe and the United States

(Tool 5)


Target audience: school teachers and administrators
higher education professionals
local government officials
NGOs

Tool:

School-Community-University Partnerships for a Sustainable Democracy: Education for Democratic Citizenship in Europe and the United States

Support materials:

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