Educazione alla cittadinanza

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National Institute for the Evaluation of the
Education System CIDREE General Assembly 2005
- PreconferenceBuilding Democracy in Europe
Through Citizenship Education2005 European Year
of Citizenship Through EducationFrascati 17th
November 2005

• Educazione alla cittadinanza
• e progettualità
• Contributo di Paolo Calidoni (Università di
  Sassari)
• per la discussione del Gruppo B

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sommario

• Quadro di riferimento EDC
• Progettualità delle scuole italiane
• Proposta

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EDCEducation for Democratic Citizenship

• is a set of practices and principles
• aimed at making young people and adults better
  equipped
• to participate actively in democratic life
• by assuming and exercising
• their rights and responsibilities in society
• Birzea C. - Council of Europe 2005

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Tool for quality assurance of EDC in schools
Council of Europe 2005
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progettualità delle scuole italianemetodologia
della ricognizione

• The information/data-base is mainly- the on-line
  documentation of schools (good) practices,
  collected by National Institute for the
  Documentation of Innovation and Research in
  Education and by other organizations
  (cittadinanzattiva, cidi, .
• The report contains
• A websites review
• A synthesis of some special documents
• A synthesis of some teachers reflection on their
  activities/experience of EDC

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progettualità delle scuole italianerisultati
della ricognizione 1

• According to the examinated documents, EDC seems
  to be
• an educational principle spreadly and firmly
  declared
• a teaching content relevant in specific
  educational activities
• carried on already from nursery schools
  developed by the whole school within compulsory
  education mainly an initiative of one or few
  teachers in secondary school, added to social
  studies classes
• developed thanks to the meeting and melting of
  different interests
• from inside (specific problems or care)
• from outside institutions (ministerial or
  international, mainly european)
• from outside organizations and groups (local
  authorities, non-profit organizations, lobbies)
• focused to the development of an active,
  participate, overnational citizenship that leads
  to a social and political status more than a
  legal one

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progettualità delle scuole italianerisultati
della ricognizione 2

• According to the examinated documents, EDC seems
  to be
• crosscurricolar and interdisciplinary activity in
  nursery and primary schools while, in
  secondary schools often it moves from one
  specific subject to the others (pluridisciplinary
  approach)
• carried on by active teachers working together
  and also with experts and militants from outside
  the school too
• developed through active teaching/learning
  strategies including discussions, teamworks,
  workshops, researchs and scientific, literary and
  artistic productions (monographs, exhibitions,
  shows, multimedia), simulations and fieldworks
• aimed to the dissemination, implementation and
  sharing of values and awareness, information and
  knowledge of citizenship the practice of skills
  and competences is focused on specific activities
  or hidden/spread in daily life
• evaluated more by qualitative appreciations on
  the experience, its contents and values, than
  using structured and formal instruments
• concluding,
• its more a teaching/learning topic than a daily
  school practice

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proposta 1

• EDC is a complex, multilevel and integrated
  action strategy within the school and in
  interaction with society.
• EDC should be developed
• starting from daily school practice and rules,
• through crosscurricolar activities
• as social and civics studies subject
• with specific projects,
• toghether.

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proposta 2

• a plan of action-researches
• aimed to develop EDC practice in italian schools
• using the strategy and methodology suggested in
  the
• Tool for quality assurance of EDC in schools
  by the Council of Europe

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proposta 3

• a bottom-up approach
• and not only a top-down one