OMJU 2005:1, Nordiska initiativ för aktivt medborgarskap utgående ...

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Element inom projekt kring aktivt medborgarskap och livslångt lärande, samt kriterier
för goda exempel (best practice) enligt Learning for active citizenship: a signifi cant challenge
in building a Europe of knowledge 93 .
Projects seeking to make a contribution to learning for citizenship included some of the following
elements of content:
• explicit emphasis on human dignity and human rights as fundamental values
• knowledge and experience of democratic institutions and decision-making
• critical appraisal of the media
• skills to combat social marginalisation/exclusion
• sense of belonging at different levels of community (local, national, European)
and of solidarity and responsibility towards one’s communities
• understanding of the processes leading to prejudice and discrimination against
minorities and the ‘different’
• developing intercultural experiences and skills
• application of environmental values and sustainable development
Elements of good practice for projects
93 DG XXII 1998
• The area studies broadly conclude that effective projects are those which
• incorporate multidimensional aspects of active citizenship (cultural, economic,
political and social);
• use innovative and participatory teaching and learning methods which combine
cognitive, affective and pragmatic levels in a judicious and balanced way;
• place a commitment to core European values at the centre of their concerns (democratic
culture, humanitarianism and social justice, respect and tolerance for diversity
and difference, ...);
• and balance self-direction with professional guidance and supervision