Action Area III

Easy access to good learning and teaching resources improves the quality of education. They support teachers’ and teacher trainers’ capacity to address issues of democracy, human rights and citizenship in schools and universities.

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EWC-led working groups to develop practice-oriented resources

5 blended online courses and 14 educational videos developed

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High quality materials
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Featured learning resources

Whole School Approach

Audio presentation on whole school approach to development of competences for democratic culture.

What is Digital Citizenship Education?

The course helps teachers and other educators to understand the concept of digital citizenship and what it means for young learners to be digital citizens in today’s society.

Learning Resources on 22 July 2011

This digital resource provides guidance and tools for teachers on how to teach about 22 July, democracy and citizenship as an interdisciplinary topic, in different subjects and on different levels from 1 – 10th grade.

EWC Guide on blended learning

A resource developed by the EWC team to help project managers and trainers to better blend online and offline tools for learning and networking in the field of education for democratic citizenship and human rights.

Tool for Democratic School Development

This EWC publication gives an introduction on how the whole school approach can help schools develop democratic competences.

What is Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education?

What is education for democracy and human rights? Why is it important for our societies? This short video gives the answers.

Culture of Democracy Through the Visual Art Preschool Education

The module is aimed for students-future teachers to provide them with didactic strategies that implement contemporary cultural values and decision-making skills for implementation of democratic thinking and behaviour to real life by its integration in visual art education for pre-schoolers.

Teaching Controversial Issues

This page with video tutorials gives a basic introduction to Teaching Controversial Issues (TCI) and how to work with them in classroom, school and beyond.

Signposts teacher training module, Teaching about religions and non-religious world views in intercultural education

This manual is developed to be used in teacher education. The aim of the training module is to offer safe ways for teachers to address issues connected to religion and non-religious world views in the framework of intercultural education.

Democracy through Didactics of Teaching Mathematics

The module integrates teaching democracy in mathematical education that support the learning process and provide environment where students can not only gain knowledge of mathematical contents, but also methodical and decision-making competencies and skills for implementation of democratic thinking and behaviour.

Culture of Democracy through the Culture of speech and its Didactics for preschool educators

This module is intended to transfer the contents of the course Methodology of educational work in speech culture with which students will gain knowledge and skills that will be able to successfully hold activities in the field of language in preschool institutions and in parallel to introduce appropriate key competencies of democratic education.

Culture of Democracy Through the Didactics of Chemistry

This publication contains the semester plan of a training module for pre-service teachers as well as the detailed planning of all 12 semester units (session plans). This module is intended for primary and secondary school teachers through a combination of pedagogical-content knowledge and democracy. The module included specific chemistry content and attempted to integrate democratic principles and values into the education of future teachers.

Democracy Through Visual Art Education

The main aim of this semester module is to engage students into a learning process which can enable them to understand and implement both contents – visual art education and democracy content.

Toolbox for teachers

Developed through the Schools for Democracy program, this online toolbox contains more than 600 teaching and learning activities for development of school students’ democratic competences. It can be used for lessons at 25 different subjects.

Experts for Learning in Practice. A manual for Mentors of Teacher Students

“Experts for Learning in Practice. A manual for Mentors of Teacher Students” is written by Rolf Gollob and developed as part of the Preparing Future Teachers in the Western Balkan project.

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