Strategy for Civic Education in Primary and Secondary Schools in ...

STRATEGY ACTIVITIES
I Status of CE and Education
for Democratic Citizenship
The main principles of changes in education imply greater democratisation
of relations within school and promotion of civic education principles
in teaching and in school life. Thus, these goals could not only be
implemented within separate subjects, but through other subjects and
teaching activities, be it compulsory subjects, electives, or elected contents
and free activities of students.
It is essential to involve different subject teachers in this process, to raise
their awareness for this type of changes and help them change school
culture towards better communication, mutual respect, understanding
and tolerance among all participants in the teaching process.
To date this has been done by various trainings put in place by different
nongovernmental organisations and the Bureau for Educational Services.
The same should continue, but it is at the same time very important
when analysing the new curricula introduced to increase the degree of
their correlation with CE. Furthermore, the contents and objectives of
education for democratic citizenship need to be reflected in the teaching
of other subjects.
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