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The Making of Citizens in Europe:

What are the challenges of citizenship education in Europe today? In search of answers, the focus of this volume are the conditions under which learning and living democracy in Europe may occur most effectively. With an introduction about "New Perspectives on Citizenship Education in Europe" by Viola B. Georgi.

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New report published by the Hansard Society (UK): Connecting Citizens to Parliament - How Parliament can engage more effectively with hard to reach groups

The report demonstrates that half the public (52%) are not really interested in Parliament and do not want to be involved in what it does. The research explores which communities and social groups are not engaging with Parliament, why and how this might be redressed. It concludes that connecting with ‘hard to reach' groups cannot be achieved by a sudden radical change of approach, but demands a number of smaller cumulative step-changes, many of which Parliament can initiate or suggest but cannot necessarily lead.

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New Eurobarometer Survey as part of the EU´s "Youth on the Move" flagship initiative

The aim of the Flash Eurobarometer survey "Youth on the Move – 319a" was to study young EU citizens’ participation in society, by looking at their involvement in various kinds of organisations, political elections, and different types of activities and projects. Youth on the Move sets out how the EU can reach the Europe 2020 targets through action in the areas of education and training, youth employment, and youth mobility. The current survey you may find here.

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Teacher education for change - The theory behind the Council of Europe Pestalozzi Programme

(Pestalozzi series n°1) edited by Josef Huber & Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard, published May 2011
What is the main role for teachers today? Why is the Council of Europe dealing with education, and teacher education in particular? How is educational thinking guided by visions of a future society desirable for all? How, in the midst of a fierce battle for curriculum time, can education for human rights, democracy and mutual understanding be embedded in the existing curricula? What are the values underlying our educational visions? The aim of this publication is to offer a few answers to these and many other questions. Above all, its purpose is to contribute to the ongoing debate, more necessary than ever, on the role of teachers and teacher education in the broader context of teaching and learning for a sustainable democratic society.

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The European Wergeland Centre (EWC) Statement Series

The first issue of the EWC Statement Series, a collection of expert statements, which have been regularly published since the beginning of 2010, you may find on the EWC homepage. Scholars and other education professionals have been invited to publish their views on current research and scholarly debates in the field of Education for Human Rights (HRE), Democratic Citizenship (EDC) and Intercultural Understanding (ICE). With this statement series, the EWC wants to make the results of theoretical debates and empirical studies available for non-academics and invite them to actively make use of them.

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Handbook "Training paths for active citizenship"

This handbook is the final project output of the project "LANCES - Learning in Action for a New Citizenship Education System" and it is now available free of charge. The project aimed to elaborate and to experiment with using innovative training paths for citizenship and participation in Italy, Germany and Bulgaria. The handbook contains the main results of LANCES testing experience and it is meant as a useful set of methodological guidelines for teachers, trainers, facilitators, mediators, learners and all interested actors.

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Citizenship Teaching and Learning

The e-journal "Citizenship Teaching and Learning" is global in scope, exploring issues of social and moral responsibility, community involvement and political literacy. It advances academic and professional understandings within a broad characterisation of education, focussing on a wide range of issues including identity, diversity, equality and social justice within social, moral, political and cultural contexts. The journal will publish scholarly and research-based articles on a wide range of citizenship topics. It will be a platform for exploration of conceptual issues, discussion on policy matters, reporting on experiments, surveys or evaluations. The journal will also bring description and analysis of examples of practice.

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International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS)

The 2009 IEA study on civic and citizenship education investigated the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in modern societies. It reports on student knowledge and understanding of civics and citizenship as well as student attitudes, perceptions and activities related to civics and citizenship. This international study is an important reference document because it allows countries to compare their own civic and citizenship education with that of other countries, amongst them 26 European ones.

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Voting Advice Applications in Europe - The State of the Art

Edited by Lorella Cedroni & Diego Garzia, published July 2010
Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) have literally taken Europe by storm in the past decade. This volume represents the first systematic attempt through a comparative framework. The cases included a range from established applications such as Dutch "StemWijzer" and German Wahl-O-Mat to ‘first attempts’ in Southern and Eastern Europe, in order to portray in detail the various stages of the development of the VAA-phenomenon around the continent. The point in time under analysis is, in each case, the European election of June 2009. The second-order nature of this electoral competition seems in fact to be an ideal context to assess the potential of these applications.

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School-community-university partnerships for a sustainable democracy: Education for democratic citizenship in Europe and the United States of America

by Matt Hartley, Ted Huddleston, published 2010
This guide examines how schools and universities can work together with their local communities to promote democracy in society based on the principles of Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC). Partnerships based on this idea foster civic skills and values in citizens and build the civic capacity of communities through the pursuit of collective solutions to local problems. The guide explores the mechanics of such partnerships in practice, describing how they are built and sustained, and what makes them work. Drawing on examples from Europe and the United States of America, the guide is intended for policy makers and practitioners in schools and universities, civil society and community groups, and representatives of public authorities and government bodies on both sides of the Atlantic.

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European Citizenship - In the Process of Construction: Challenges for Citizenship, Citizenship Education and Democratic Practice in Europe

edited by Ditta Dolejsiova and Miguel Angel Garcia Lopez, published 2009
Young people in particular have a special interest in and concern about what kind of Europe they want to live in. Therefore, it is important to reflect on how European citizenship and debates around European identity could help and empower young people to actively contribute to building Europe. The essays present the debates and findings of the research seminar entitled "Young People and Active European Citizenship", organised by the Youth Partnership between the Council of Europe and the European Commission.

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Europe, Globalization and the Lisbon Agenda

edited by Maria João Rodrigues, published by Edward Elgar 2009
Designed to inspire the new cycle of the Lisbon Agenda until 2010 and beyond, this book explores new developments in the European agenda for globalisation addressing four critical areas: European policies, their adaptation to national diversity in Europe, their implications for the external action of the European Union and, finally, their implications for EU governance, including the Lisbon Treaty. That is why this book will be a relevant resource for European policy-makers, governments and academics from a wide range of disciplines who are concerned about the future competitiveness of Europe.

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Handbook on Values for Life in a Democracy

by Robert Strandling and Christopher Rowe, published 2009
This Handbook was one of the outcomes of the project "Cultural identities, shared values and citizenship" (2006-2008). It is structured around a series of key questions to promote discussion among young people about universal human rights and the implementation of core European values and encourages the reader to apply these values to a variety of issues.

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Challenges for citizenship, citizenship education and democratic practice in Europe

Ditta Dolejsiová and Miguel Ángel García López (eds), Council of Europe, 2009
European citizenship is still a contested concept, bringing together two notions and therefore two different debates: one on Europe and European identity, and the other related to citizenship and non-citizenship. Young people in particular have a special interest in and concern about what kind of Europe they want to live in. It is therefore important to reflect on how European citizenship and debates on European identity might help and empower young people to actively contribute to building Europe.

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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. Immigration, Islam and the West

Christopher Caldwell, published by Penguin 2009
In his book Caldwell reveals the anger of natives and newcomers alike. He describes guest worker programmes that far outlasted their economic justifications, and asylum policies that have served illegal immigrants more than refugees. As increasingly assertive immigrant populations shape the continent, Caldwell writes, the foundations of European culture and civilisation are being challenged and replaced. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic work on how Muslim immigration has permanently reshaped the West.

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Citizenship policies in the age of diversity – Europe at the crossroads

Richard Zapata-Barrero (ed.), 2009
This publication features articles on the crisis in the management of immigrant diversity in the EU, and how, as a consequence, many European states are opting for a citizenship-based policy approach. The authors discuss how and why many European states are use the citizenship rhetoric to legitimate a restrictive policy based on a revival of a 19th-century state nationalism, which requires immigrants to pass a citizenship test before being allowed access to rights of residence and/or citizenship.

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Reclaiming Democracy: Civil Society and Electoral Change in Central and Eastern Europe

Pavol Demes, Joerg Forbrig, (eds.), published by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2007
A remarkable sequence of democratic changes has swept through Central and Eastern Europe in recent years. In Slovakia and Croatia, Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine, postcommunist politics had increasingly departed from the democratic reforms initiated after 1989. Neo-autocrats in the five countries found themselves challenged by democratic alliances of opposition parties, civil society groups and citizens at large. These asserted a democratic choice over the future of their countries and, by way of peaceful mobilization, returned democratically elected governments to office. The book provides a cross-section of perspectives on recent democratic breakthroughs in Central and Eastern Europe, like PORA and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Rose Revolution in Georgia or OK 98 - a campaign of Slovak NGOs for fair and free elections. Focussing on structures as much as on key collective as well as individual actors, the articles give a vivid impression of the heterogeneity of these still ongoing, quite incommensurable processes.

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NECE newsletter 02/09
The second edition of the NECE newsletter is online now. Apart from other topics, this issue focuses on the EPs new legislative period and the priorities of the Lisbon Strategy regarding citizenship education and social cohesion. Prof. Wolfgang Sander informs about his work and the goals of the newly created Chair of the Didactics of Civic Education at the University of Vienna. Also, this newsletter will present further information and publications on the topic of citizenship education. (PDF-Version: 739 KB)

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