TASKs for democracy

About the authors
Series editor
Council of Europe
Josef Huber works in the Education Department, Directorate of
Democratic Citizenship and Participation of the Council of Europe,
where he is currently responsible for the Pestalozzi Programme,
the Council of Europe programme for the training of education
professionals and for activities in the field of media and information
literacy. Until July 2006, he was involved in the Council of Europe’s
Higher Education and Research Division and was responsible for
the organisation of two Higher Education fora on higher education
governance (2005) and on the responsibility of higher education for
a democratic culture (2006), and he was co-editor of the ensuing
publications. From 1998 to 2004, as Head of Programmes and Deputy
Executive Director of the European Centre for Modern Languages,
he was responsible for the latter’s programme of activities and
research and development projects as well as its publications series
on language learning and teaching, intercultural communication
and language education policy. He was involved in language education policy development by the Austrian
Ministry of Education between 1992 and 1998 and prior to this was a language teacher in schools and at
universities in Austria and abroad.
Book editors
Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard – France
Social psychologist, trainer, consultant
Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard has worked in the field of intercultural
communication, education and leadership training for the past
25 years. Her professional activities in France and the USA have
been geared towards community leadership training and capacity
building mostly in education and literacy projects, giving voice to
marginalised communities so they can organise and have their dignity
restored through active democratic participation. Since 2006, she
has been involved in international teacher education programmes
and consultancies on educational issues related to living together
in mutual understanding and promoting education for democracy.
Presently Director of Studies for the Pestalozzi Programme, she is
involved in diverse projects and works with the Council of Europe,
the European Wergeland Centre and the Anna Lindh Foundation, to
name a few. She lectures in universities as well as in national training
institutions for teachers and social workers.
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