Education for Citizenship Literacy

Project Number: CRO4

Country: Croatia

Institutions/Departments: GONG (Civil Society Organization)

URL: https://www.gong.hr/en/active-citizens/civic-education-in-schools/

Publication/Material: https://www.gong.hr/en/

Project leader and contact person: GONG

Duration: 2018 - ongoing

Short Description:

In the absence of a mandatory school educational program for civics and civil society, the civil society organization GONG designed a teacher education program to train teachers in specific skills and competences and teach them to apply the knowledge they acquire in their overall teaching. The program aims to develop awareness of the necessity of individual civic engagement. A special module entitled "Education for Citizenship Literacy" was designed to educate teachers about the possibilities of introducing school students to the concept and practice of active citizenship. So far, workshops have been held in March and April in Sisak, Pazin and Rijeka, and workshops continue in the area of Primorje-Gorski Kotar and Osijek. Workshops introduce teachers to basic concepts of civic education, with focus on politics, democracy, populism, political parties, political culture, political socialization, civil society, alternative models of democracy etc. The project has also created an online educational module entitled: Citizen - and not a subject!, accessible to all interested in the topic.

Implementation: 2018 - ongoing

Target Group(s), age & context: Teachers, elementary and high school pupils

Approach/Method: Lecture series

Type: Curriculum, teaching module, workshops

Funding: Open Society Foundations Network and the National Foundation for Civil Society Development through the Knowledge Centre for Social Development

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