Vademecum for civic education in schools

The Vademecum will highlight 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 will contain:

  • 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 (june 2021)

    EYP France and Ecos are coordinating and editing a questionnaire to gather good practices from all over Europe. In order to do so, we are soliciting various actors and innovative practices

  • Sort out the collected practices

    We aim 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 (oct. 2021)

    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

  • Publishing of the vademecum (may 2022)

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

Share your practices !

You are an education professional (teachers, youth educators, supervisory and administrative staff) and you are using innovative methods to encourage civic participation and improve civic education in high schools, let us know and we will contact you.

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