Demokratieerziehung in digitalisierten Gesellschaften Erasmus Project

Project Title

Demokratieerziehung in digitalisierten Gesellschaften

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The digitalisation of today’s societies is an important driving force for social development and an opportunity for participation for all people. However, it can also lead to a restriction of privacy and self-determination and to the undermining of free democratic order through fake news, hate speech or social bots. This has consequences for the tasks for schools, which have the responsibility of imparting important competencies to their pupils, such as
– a critical and responsible approach to media,
– the willingness to take responsibility,
– to value diversity and to be able to act intercultural,
– to be able to contribute their own abilities constructively in an increasingly diverse society.

Very few schools are in a position to do this, as the teachers only have the capacity to develop these skills in few topics. Against this background, the project initially brings together the existing competences in the subject areas of two schools from Denmark and Germany. The aim is to create basic principles and pedagogical options for action which aim to convey basic democratic values in connection with the optimal and responsible use of digital media and tools in an increasingly digitized society. To this end, an intensive exchange will take place to clarify which competences need to be developed for the pupils and which competences teachers need in order to initiate this development.

As a result, a guideline for schools will be developed, which contains tested basic principles and pedagogical options for initiating processes that enable pupils to learn and implement basic democratic values in an increasingly digitized society.

For this purpose an intensive exchange takes place between 3 teachers of local groups of both schools and between 15-17 pupils per school. The pupils are between 15 and 17 years old and work together in local student groups at Klax Schule in Germany and at Deutsche Nachschule Tingleff (DNT) in Denmark.

In transnational working meetings of the teachers involved, it will be discussed and analysed,
– which competences pupils need to develop for the appreciation and exercise of basic democratic values in an increasingly digital society,
– what knowledge pupils need for this,
– which competences teachers need to initiate these developments and to impart this knowledge.

Based on the above, the teachers develop a concept, which is tested in transnational student exchanges of pupils in the implementation of “Democracy Weeks” and finally further developed into a guideline. More pupils of both schools between the age of 15 and 17 participate in these local project weeks. Between the student exchanges and the transnational working meetings of the teachers, the participants continue to work on the project and its jointly defined milestones. The teachers groups regularly present the results of their observations, analyses and documentations as well as the results and contents developed at the transnational working meetings to their colleagues or pass them on in micro trainings.

The published guideline provides other teachers with a basis for initiating pedagogical processes that enable pupils to attain and apply basic democratic values in an increasingly digitised society.

In the course of the project, the participating schools expand their partnership and consolidate it. They can also deepen their international profile. The respective colleges gain practical experience in European project management. If transnational cooperation is continued using etwinning, further teachers and pupils can acquire competences for the initiation and implementation of transnational partnerships.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 64880 Eur

Project Coordinator

Klax Sekundarschule Staatlich anerkannte Ersatzschule mit gymnasialer Oberstufe & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Deutsche Nachschule Tingleff