TASKs for democracy

Step 4 (debriefing – 20 minutes)
1. Ask participants to recognise that communities are socially constructed.
2. Ask participants to share experiences, impressions and difficulties in their work in groups.
3 Discuss the results: stress the new forms of community in the “global village” (e.g. virtual, geographical
and non-geographical).
Step 5 (evaluation – 20 minutes)
1. Participants receive a logbook (Task sheet 5) and are invited to fill in the following items.
Summing up the session in three key words
Today, I have learned…
From this session I take with me …
I would like to learn more about…
2. Ask participants to fill in their individual evaluation sheet (Task sheet 6).
PLANNING
Preparation
Make sure you prepare all the materials in advance, including the handouts. The room should be set up for
small group work and should also provide a big empty space for the global community activity.
Resources and equipment
Task sheets 1-7, flip chart paper
Tips and potential difficulties
1. It is essential to explain each phase of group work and the roles of the members of the group – facilitator,
recorder, reporter, timekeeper.
2. Drawing an ideal community should result from a spontaneous process, so do not give more than 10
minutes to participants to complete this task.
3. Possible follow-up activity: preparation for implementation – participants have to represent and write
down common answers, e.g. barriers/constraints and opportunities/possibilities, which have emerged
from the group discussion (Task sheets 2 and 3). After that, each group’s reporter will present and explain
the findings to the entire group. The session ends with:
a whole group debate. Optional: you can hand out Task sheet 4, and have participants read the
guidelines, “How to develop community work to build active and critical citizenship?”
an exploration of what can be done concretely, and designing (individual action plans) (Task sheet 7)
Further reading
Council of Europe (2000), Sites of citizenship, Council of Europe Publishing, Strasbourg. www.coe.int/t/dg4/
highereducation/completedactivities/unisitescitizenship_EN.asp. Accessed 3 December 2014
Nuffield Foundation (2000), Developing a whole school policy for Citizenship Education, available at www.nuffieldfoundation.org/nuffield-citizenship
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