How can democracy be learned, lived and shaped at all levels of schoolwork? Erasmus Project

Project Title

How can democracy be learned, lived and shaped at all levels of schoolwork?

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Background and targets of the project
Schooldays are an important and time-consuming stage of life of children and adolescents. School´s responsibility focuses on imparting of knowledge as well as bringing young people up as democrats. That is one of the essential objectives of schooling because young people will transfer innovation and creativity into economy and the society as a whole. Therefore, young people want to be taken seriously, involved and challenged. It´s about the sense of belonging and children have to learn, to live and to create it. So democracy should be established as a lifestyle. The commitment to democratic education at all schools is a challenge in Germany and Europe we want to meet in our project.
Number and profile of participants:
– boys and girls aged from 6 to 17, educational staff
– 3 German schools (primary and secondary I)
– 1 Dutch schools (secondary I and II)
– 1 Italian school
– Government Education Authority of Middle-Thuringia
– Institute for primary schools (Netherlands) for 13 schools
Activities:
– meetings of project teams national, international
– meeting of teams within the schools and between partner schools
– rounds of planning, exchange of outcomes, approach and solution models
– development of democracy-educational culture at schools (structures, participation of different partners…)
– overview for children and youngsters
– creating possibilities of participation in social issues at school, in the village, in the region/area
– reflection, evaluation, documentation
– regional relations work/regional public relations activities
Methods of implementation for the project itself: project management
Methods of development of social competences: practice, support, encouragement, recognition of children and adolescents
Results expected:
The students learn to understand the social situation they live in and gain social competences to act responsibly inside their school community, in the school environment like the hometown or village and in clubs and associations and to shape the social relations. In this way, they can succeed in social and voluntary participation. Our task is to create suitable structures and opportunities of participation for students that have an effect as social area network and involve external partners.
The education staff increases its repertoire of teaching and learning skills regarding to development and consolidation of social competences of schoolchildren of all ages.
In the result of the activities, democratic cultures and structures are established and democratic actions are developed. Commitment to democratic education means to practise these attitudes with the whole school community.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 111425 Eur

Project Coordinator

Staatliches Schulamt Mittelthüringen & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Gemeinschaftsschule am Roten Berg
• Stichting Onderwijsgroep Galileï
• Staatliche Grundschule “Otto Lilienthal” Erfurt
• Stichting BasisBuren, voor openbaar en algemeen bijzonder primair onderwijs
• Staatliche Regelschule “Am Lindenkreis” Buttelstedt
• Istituto Comprensivo Ex S.M. “Torraca”