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Economic Education in Greece at the High School Level
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Civic Education in Italy: Intended Curriculum and Students\u27 Opportunity to Learn
Get PDFCivic Education is considered in Italy as one of the most important aims of school education as a whole. Nevertheless, available researches show the existence of a gap between intended curriculum and students\u27 experience at school. Official Civic Education curricula, teaching practices and students\u27 participation in the school life are presented with reference to official documents and to research results. Particular attention is paid to the results of the IEA Civic Education study that involved two different probability samples of students of lower and upper secondary school. The study results show that the Italian students of those school levels have an acceptable knowledge of the main principles governing the functioning of democratic societies, but not a sufficient grounding in certain fundamental aspects of the Italian political and institutional system
Greek Conceptions of Democracy, Citizenship, the State Role and Immigrants
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Civic Education in Spain: A Critical Review of Policy
Get PDFDer internationale Wiederaufschwung der staatsbürgerlichen Erziehung im letzten Jahrzehnt hatte keinen anhaltenden Einfluss im spanischen Erziehungssystem. Im Gegensatz zu den Anstrengungen in Großbritannien, in vielen ehemals kommunistischen Ländern und Demokratien auf der ganzen Welt wie in Australien, waren die spanischen Bemühungen um eine demokratische Staatserziehung eher bescheiden. Trotzdem kann man von einem steigenden Interesse und einer immer größeren Verwirklichung der Überzeugung sprechen, dass Spanien ein Teil des neuen, demokratischeren Europas ist, das eine staatsbürgerliche Erziehung braucht, damit die jungen Leute ein demokratisches Bewusstsein entwickeln. Das Allgemeine Gesetz zur Regulierung des Spanischen Erziehungssystems (LOGSE) von 1990, zum Beispiel, beinhaltete staatsbürgerliche Erziehung als Teil der geplanten Erziehungsreform von Spanien am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Unser Ziel ist es, das Programm für die Staatsbürgerliche und Moralische Erziehung, das 1990 vom spanischen Erziehungsministerium vorgeschlagen wurde, von seinen frühesten Formulierungen an kritisch zu analysieren und dabei auch die Änderungen zu betrachten, die bis 2001 eingefügt worden sind. Es wurden die Gesetzestexte und Anordnungen analysiert, die in der genannten Zeitspanne vom Ministerium (MEC: Spanisches Ministerium für Erziehung und Wissenschaft) veröffentlicht worden sind. Die veröffentlichte Bibliographie, die sich mit der theoretischen Basis der Vorschläge befasst, sowie die Hinweise auf die Einführung dieser Erziehung wurden ebenfalls berücksichtigt. Wir folgern aus unseren Studien, dass Spanien sich, trotz dieser Bemühungen in der Erziehungsreform, für ein kraftvolleres Programm für staatsbürgerliche Erziehung in einer Demokratie entscheiden muss, wenn es sich selbst, die Erziehung betreffend, als Teil des neuen Europas sehen möchte. Die jungen Leute in Spanien sind gewöhnlich nicht gut darauf vorbereitet, aktive, demokratische Staatsbürger im neuen Europa und in der fortschreitend globalisierten Welt zu sein.The international revival in civic education over the past decade did not have a pervading impact on the Spanish education system. Unlike efforts in Britain, many former communist countries and democracies in other parts of the world such as Australia, Spanish efforts to invigorate education for democratic citizenship have been modest. Nevertheless there has been a growing interest and an increasing realization that Spain is part of a new, more democratic Europe which needs civic education for its young people to enhance democratic citizenship. For example, the 1990 General Law for the Regulation of the Spanish Educational System (LOGSE) included Civic Education as part of the planned educational reform for Spain at the end of the Twentieth century. Our objective is to critically analyze the Civic and Moral Education program proposed by the Spanish Ministry of Education, in 1990, from its earliest formulations, including the modifications that have been incorporated until 2001. The legal texts and orders issued by the ministry (MEC: Ministerio Español de Educación y Ciencia) during the specified period were analyzed. Published bibliography presenting the theoretical basis of the proposal, as well as the references concerning its implementation, were also studied. We conclude that despite these efforts in educational reform, if Spain wants to see itself, educationally, as part of the new Europe, it will need to engage a more vigorous program in civic education for democratic citizenship. Currently young people in Spain are not well prepared for active, democratic citizenship in the new Europe and an increasingly globalized world
The Case of Cyprus and Germany. Results of the IEA Civic Education Study
No full textThis paper explores how democratic values are stimulated by predictors related to family and school. We began by posing a simple question: How can we best explain students\u27 democratic values in relation to their home backgrounds, school-class climate, political environment, political interest and participation of students in social activities? To answer this, we chose to elaborate on a model comparing various background factors. Both models (cf. figures 2 and 3) seem to indicate that school climate has a huge effect on political environment and political interest. Here, political environment has a stronger effect on social participation than political interest. Although Germany and Cyprus have many differences, the actual models for both countries are almost identical
Citizenship Education in Slovenia Between Past and Future
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The Politics of League Tables
Get PDFThe article focuses on the political usages of OECD- and IEA-type studies on student achievement, and suggests that we examine in more detail how policy makers use results from international comparisons to advance fundamental school reform at national level. The author categorizes three types of policy reactions to league tables: (1) scandalization, (2) glorification, and (3) indifference. Drawing from media reports and policy debates that emerged right after the release of the results from TIMSS, PISA, and the Civic Education Study, the author points at the different policy reactions that these OECD and IEA studies have had in various national contexts. In Japan, for example, the release of TIMSS led to a self-affirmation or glorification of Japanese methods in science and mathematics, whereas the release of PISA in Germany triggered self-criticism or scandalization, and strengthened existing demands for a fundamental reform of the German educational system. Most striking is the political indifference that the release of the IEA Civic Education encountered in Germany. German students held the last rank in the international league table on attitudes towards immigrants (Civic Education Study), whereas they scored below OECD-average in reading literacy (PISA). The author provides a few tentative explanations for the following question: why was there such a political spectacle about the reading literacy scores of German students given that German students did far worse with regard to xenophobia
Lasten der Vergangenheit? Politische Bildung in deutschen Schulen
Get PDFIn diesem Beitrag wird vor allem auf der Grundlage der Studien in dem international vergleichenden Projekt Civic Education im Rahmen der International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), die international und von der deutschen Projektgruppe publiziert wurden, ein Überblick über die Entwicklung der Politischen Bildung im 20. Jahrhundert in Schulen in Deutschland gegeben. Zentrale empirische Befunde der deutschen und internationalen IEA-Studien werden zur Darstellung der Politischen Bildung im internationalen Vergleich herangezogen. Der Beitrag trägt zum Verständnis Politischer Bildung in Deutschland unter historischer und vergleichender Perspektive bei
Experiental Civic Learning by using „Projekt: Aktive Bürger“
No full textVarious social and political developments seem to sum up to a process of \u27de-civilization\u27 which impede - rather than facilitate - the project of a humane and democratic society. In order to make this project a successful one it is necessary to reclaim citizens as politically acting subjects. The ability to act as enlightened and autonomous citizens will be sustainably acquired by experiencing extensive participation in society and in politics. Civic education should foster this process of \u27revi-talization of citizenship\u27 by offering youth meaningful participatory experiences of social and po-litical relevance. That is: Civic education should create, organize and offer learning strategies that are oriented towards the notion of reflective acting as experiential learning. Experiential learning processes, aimed at the sustainable acquisition of competencies which are relevant in politics and civil society, will particularly unfold in the course of the (inter)active dealing of the individual(s) with the authentic political and social problems and processes that surround and concern them. This also includes reflection and co-operation. One example of how to practice an experiential and prob-lem-centred learning strategy is well being demonstrated by the civic education program "Projekt: Aktive Bürger", the German adaptation of "We the People ... Project Citizen" designed by the American Center for Civic Education
Civic Education in Portugal: Curricular Evolutions in Basic Education
Get PDFThis paper focuses on the curricular evolutions of civic education in Portugal with particular reference to two major turning points: the Curricular Reform of 1989, that instituted Personal and Social Education as an area of basic education, and the Curricular Reorganisation of Basic Education of 2001, that states Citizenship Education as a major goal. The debates surrounding these curricular changes include the discussion not only the curricular strategies privileged (e.g., cross-disciplinary dissemination, specific subject, non-disciplinary space), but also the concept of what civic education should be about (e.g., restricted to moral-values education vs. emphasising knowledge, attitudes and competencies). The current situation and prospects for the future are discussed