EDC Policies in Europe

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EDC Policies in Europe

• CIDREE Annual Conference
• Frascati, Villa Tuscolana
• (11.17.2005)

Bruno Losito University of Roma Tre
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EDC Policies in Europe

• All European Study on EDC Policies - CoE
• Citizenship Education at School in Europe
  (Eurydice)
• Quality Assurance in EDC (UNESCO - EDC Pack)
• Previous studies (IEA CivEd Study)

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EDC Policies in Europe

• The All-European study was initiated in 2002
• Two main aims
• identifying the current policies on EDC
• mapping the measures taken by governments for the
  implementation of these policies

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EDC Policies in Europe

• Three key questions
• What EDC policies exist?
• What implementation measures are taken?
• What are the views from practitioners and
  stakeholders on EDC measures?

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EDC Policies in Europe

• Eurydice study citizenship education at school
• Concept of responsible citizenship
• Country profiles provided by Eurydice National
  Units
• Official curricula, pupils participation,
  evaluation and assessment, teacher education in
  citizenship, European dimension of citizenship
  education

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EDC Policies in Europe

• Main results of these studies
• a systematic description of EDC policies across
  Europe
• a systematic description of EDC school curricula
• main challenges and possible developments

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EDC Policies in Europe

• From civic education to citizenship education
  and education for democratic citizenship
• Formal, informal, non formal education
• School education and lifelong learning perspective

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EDC Policies in Europe

• Compliance gap
• differences between political statements, policy
  intention and implementation measures
• Three major challenges
• the challenge of participation
• the challenge of monitoring and quality assurance
• the challenge of teacher training

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EDC Policies in Europe

• Participation
• increased opportunities for participation in the
  running of the school (teachers, parents,
  students, local communities)
• organisational difficulties, composition of
  representative bodies, bureaucracy, actual
  involvement of stakeholders
• Efficiency vs participation ?

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EDC Policies in Europe

• Monitoring and quality assurance
• school autonomy, reachness and variety of
  programmes and projects
• from external evaluation and quality control to
  self-evaluation and quality assurance
• Students assessment

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EDC Policies in Europe

• Teacher training
• Role of teachers in EDC
• ? all the teachers not only specific subject
  teachers
• ? whole school approach
• ? hidden curriculum
• ? school development and self-evaluation
• School autonomy/teachers responsibility

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EDC Policies in Europe

• Teacher training
• Limited and sporadic teacher training related to
  EDC
• Very few courses at University level in initial
  teacher training
• In-service training optional
• Lack of coordination between different ministries
  responsible for initial and in-service teacher
  training

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EDC Policies in Europe

• The risk of a rhetoric of EDC
• statement of core principles
• no adequate implementation measures
• no adequate conditions for EDC development at
  school level