Vademecum for civic education in schools

The Vademecum highlights examples of practices involving civil society associations and organizations that enable the implementation of formal and non-formal educational methods.

What's inside ?

This production consists of an inventory of good European practices in the field of citizenship education carried out in secondary schools in Europe. It contains:

  • Interdisciplinary pedagogical pathways of citizenship education carried by educational teams: pathways to raise awareness of elections, within the framework of school projects, equivalents of citizen's career paths and moral and civic education etc.
  • Examples of activities carried out by high school students to encourage expression and debate: debate clubs, sessions, expression events open to the local community etc.
  • School life mechanisms that promote high school democracy: student councils, consultations, participatory budgets, etc.
  • National legal and pedagogical frameworks regarding citizenship education for each good practice presented

Steps:

  • Survey

    EYP France and Ecos coordinated and edited a questionnaire to gather good practices from all over Europe. In order to do so, we have solicited various actors and innovative practices

  • Sort out the collected practices

    We aimed to identify a wide variety of practices that target students, teachers as well as school administrative and public authorities.

  • In-depth interview with some actors

    We coducted interviews in order to get more details on some of the gathered practices as well as a study of the national legislative and pedagogical frameworks

  • The vademecum

    A digital production in Portuguese, French and English bringing together 20 good practices identified in 10 countries.

Check out the vademecum here