European Workshop: „ Promoting teachers’ competences to enhance citizenship and democracy in the school community” Caparide (Estoril), Portugal, 25 – 28 May 2011
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CONTEXT The training workshop key feature is to explore the nature and principles of Education for Democratic Citizenship/Human Rights Education (EDC/HRE) in order to enhance teachers’ development of Core Competences in this field. It will therefore focus on: the aims and purposes of EDC/HRE; the different possible contexts of EDC/HRE implementation; the collaborative work within appropriate community partnerships; and the modelling of democratic citizenship and human rights values, attitudes and dispositions. On the basis of these Core competences, the training activity will aim to: a) Empower teachers as change actors and builders of their school communities’ cohesion; b) Develop cross-curricular and project based approaches on EDC/HRE; c) Work collaboratively with appropriate partners (such as community representatives, NGOs and voluntary associations); d) Empower teachers to reflect on and to assess their EDC/HRE practices in order to improve their professional development. The Workshop will bring together, as in all PESTALOZZI activities, a theoretical approach and practical activities with the active participation of the trainees through learning by doing process: dialogical approach, cooperative learning, individual and group work, reflective practice, presentation and debate. TARGET GROUP Primary and lower secondary school teachers dealing with civic/citizenship education in their classes. Before the workshop participants must be be acquainted notably with their National Education Authorities’ documents regarding civic/citizenship education. There will be some pre-work required. HOW TO PARTICIPATE Interested education professionals can apply directly to participate in any training activity of the Pestalozzi programme. [More] ____________________________________________________________ NEWS KEY DOCUMENTS Description of the Workshop / Report Presentations of the Workshops are available on the organisers’ website (Direcção –Geral dos Recursos Humanos da Educação- Directorate General for Human Resources of Education): http://www.dgrhe.min-edu.pt/web/14654/programa-pestalozzi PICTURES FURTHER DOCUMENTS Documents for further reading

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