1. Citizenship at National,
Regional and International
Level: Approaches, Studies
and Debates
27th March 2015
Citizenship Learning
Seminar
Santiago de Chile

2. David Kerr
Senior Teaching Fellow
University of Bristol
Director of Education
Citizenship Foundation
Visiting Professor of Citizenship
Birkbeck College
University of London
david.kerr@citizenshipfoundation.org.uk

3. Aims of this presentation…
To answer some key questions:
Democratic Citizenship, Human Rights
and Intercultural Dialogue
1. Why now?
2. What do we know?
3. For whom - who benefits?
4. What are the challenges and debates?
5. What helpful developments are there?

4. Democratic Citizenship,
Human Rights and
Intercultural Dialogue – Why
now?

5. ‘..the new challenge of how to
prepare young people for
democracy in contexts that are
quite different from those that
have been known in the past.’
Kerry Kennedy

6. Climate Change/Global
Warming

7. Migration of Peoples

8. Democracy in Europe

9. Combatting violence and
extremism

10. Global Capitalism and Jobs

11. Student Voice

12. New and Unknown
Challenges

13. Global Responses

14. Democratic Citizenship,
Human Rights and
Intercultural Dialogue –
What do we know?

15. Key landmark studies
• IEA Cived Study 2001
• IEA ICCS09 + regional reports
• Eurydice reports
• CELS 2001 to 2015

16. What to address in the DCHRE
‘Contexts’
Curriculum
Core
knowledge
Key
skills
‘Big
,
controversial
issues’
School
community
Par=cipa=on
Decision-­‐making
Voice,
leadership
Teamwork
Wider
communi=es
Par=cipa=on
Decision-­‐making
Big
issues
Engage
with
adults

17. Competence Based
Civic Competence
Dispositions/
Behaviours
Affective
(Doing/Active)
Cognitive
(Knowing)
Knowledge Skills Attitudes Values

18. Democratic Citizenship,
Human Rights and
Intercultural Dialogue – who
benefits?

19. 6 Key Sets of Actors and
beneficiaries…
1. Pupils/students
2. Teachers and support staff
3. School leaders and senior staff
4. Parents and community
representatives
5. Wider society

20. Democratic Citizenship,
Human Rights and
Intercultural Dialogue – what
are the challenges and
debates?

21. Some key challenges
1. Definition
2. Coherence
3. Status
4. Policy will
5. Bridging the ‘implementation gap’
6. Evidence base - monitoring and
review
7. Promote outcomes and benefits

22. Key debates…
1. Perspective
2. Measurement
3. Methodology
4. Interpretation and reach
5. Costs and benefits
6. Gaps

23. Trial and Error!

24. Democratic Citizenship,
Human Rights and
Intercultural Dialogue – what
are helpful developments?

25. Further studies and evidence to
come…
• IEA ICCS16
• CoE Charter review
• CoE Competence Framework
• CELS further waves

26. Framework for Action
Council of Europe Charter on
Education for Democratic
Citizenship and Human Rights
Education – adopted by the Commıttee
of Mınısters on 11 May 2010
Policy Tool - Strategic Support for
Decision Makers
Competences Framework for
DCHRE and intercultural dialogue

27. “Democracy Generation”
EDC/HRE Joint Project in Turkey
Turkey
Celebrate

28. EC/CoE Pilot Project
Training for Teachers on
Handling Controversial Issues

29. Global Competence PISA 2018
• Increasing globalization
• Interconnectedness
• Multimodal forms of communication
• Multicultural and multinational learning
and work environments
• Need to prepare learners for our 21st
century, global community

30. What kind of education
system do we need?
What kind of society do we
want?
Chilean writer

31. Thank you
And good luck
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