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In a pandemic, ignoring science affects everyone. Citizenship education can help
Pupils really should have the option to devise programs to combat pandemics. Credit history: Shutterstock Considering that early 2020, our way of daily life has improved dramatically. COVID-19 has reworked how we examine, discover and work—even how we shop, eat and get. All through the pandemic, Canada has implemented unique […]
Citizenship-as-knowledge: How perspectives from Bildung-centred Didaktik can contribute to European Citizenship Education beyond competence
Introduction Since the end of the 1990s, a renewed interest in the field of citizenship education (CE) has developed, spurring a process of comprehensive policy development in Europe, both nationally and on the supranational level. Because polarisation, alienation and the decreased acceptance of political authority seem to represent persistent challenges […]
Options for developing European strategies on citizenship education
Intergovernmental approaches to citizenship education in Europe This section describes the CoE’s and the EU’s current approaches towards policymaking on citizenship education. Both organisations use a characteristic set of policy tools based on their organisational structures and the resources at their disposal. For the purpose of analysis, the distinction between […]
Citizenship-as-competence, what else? Why European citizenship education policy threatens to fall short of its aims
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Scientists Weigh In on India’s Citizenship Debate
Around minor extra than a yr, hundreds of Indian experts have frequently come jointly to convey problem about the Modi government’s steps in Kashmir, its try to redefine citizenship and its persecution of dissident intellectuals. The Indian scientific neighborhood has traditionally been hesitant to intervene in broader social debates. So, […]
Sovereignty, citizenship and educating refugees in the United States
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Global citizenship education: A new ‘moral pedagogy’ for the 21st century?
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