Themes and Labs 2016
The World Forum for Democracy 2016 will focus on how education can help bridge the social divide and become a real asset for our diverse democracies.
The Forum will analyse the impact of education systems on democracy and identify innovative initiatives and practices which can make education (both formal and non-formal) more democracy-centred, and critically assess their potential to trigger systemic change. It will focus on the issue of how education can become better at nurturing citizens as active members of society who engage in public space – and how grassroots innovation can be enhanced to promote change in education practice on a greater scale. The Forum will discuss not only what Education can do for Democracy but also what Democracy can do for Education.
The Forum will consist of plenary sessions for high-level addresses; keynote introductions and a joint debate/summing up, as well as a series of focused working sessions – labs – to address specific issues through the critical analysis of tested initiatives or new ideas. The key conclusions and lessons learnt from the labs will be discussed in a summing up session in order to prepare the overall conclusions for the Forum.
Theme 1
A, B, Citizenship, Democracy, and Education
Theme 2
Education bridging social divides – pass or fail?
- LAB 10
Gamify democracy - LAB 11
Embracing Global Citizenship - LAB 12
DemocrARTization - LAB 13
Refugees: Opportunities without borders - LAB 14
Deciphering media - LAB 15
Global classroom - LAB 16
Learning respect - LAB 17
Education on the move - LAB 18
Intergenerational learning - LAB 19
Education for Democracy: innovative experiences in the Francophone world