Together with partner organisations from all over Europe, the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) is initiating a series of six workshops within the framework of the "European Year for Citizenship through Education". The workshops will focus on current topics in citizenship education, and provide a platform for experts, scientists and educational workers in the field to exchange personal views and experiences and to present and discuss concepts and models of citizenship education in Europe.
The bpb, Severin, the University of Roskilde and the Workers Educational Association (AOF) would like to invite you to participate in the next expert workshop, which will take place in Copenhagen. There, professionals from a number of EU countries will meet to share their views on the best means and ways of getting hard-to-reach-learners involved in citizenship education.
Reaching hard-to-reach-learners presents a challenge to the institutions that guide education policy in Europe. For years now, different countries have initiated and experimented with various models and methods aimed at these target groups, but those attempts have for the most part remained at a national level. In the workshop, experts will discuss their experiences in interacting with hard-to-reach-learners all over the continent. The goal of the study groups at the workshop will be to further develop existing models and to set down blueprints for fresh approaches to the issue.
The workshop will be held in English.
Report
- Interner Link: Report by Viola Georgi (PDF-Version: 234 KB)
Programme
Friday, October 28, 2005
Arrival and check in
2:00 p.m.
Coffee
2:30 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Jens William Grav, Severin, Denmark
Petra Grüne, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Germany
3:00 p.m.
Hard-to-reach-learners – A European Definition?
Who belongs to a group of hard-to-reach-learners? What factors determine the difficulties involved in reaching individual groups? Do those factors change? Are there national differences in classifying what constitutes a group of hard-to-reach-learners?
Søren Lassen / Annette Johansen, AOF Research Unit, Denmark
Becze Orsolya, Ec-Pec Foundation, Hungary
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Tippelt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany (invited)
4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Discussion
7:00 p.m.
Reception at the PH-Café followed by a jazz concert
Saturday, October 29, 2005
09:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Citizenship Education for Hard-to-reach-learner Target Groups
How can we enter into a successful dialogue with hard-to-reach-learner target groups? Which areas of citizenship education are suitable when reaching out to them? What is of primary importance – participation in activities or simple knowledge transfer? Should citizenship education for hard-to-reach-learner groups be approached from a regional angle, or does it make more sense to employ global topics to win their interest?
Introduction
Prof. Lene Larsen, University of Roskilde
"Citizenship Education for the Socially Disadvantaged"
Cherly Turner, National Institute for Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), UK
"Citizenship Education for Young People"
Alina Fuchs, Centre for Applied Policy Research, Germany
11:30 a.m. – 01:00 p.m.
Discussion
01:00 – 02:00 p.m.
Lunch
02:00 – 04:00 p.m.
Models of Citizenship Education and Projects Aimed at Hard-to-reach-learner Groups
Tim Verbits, Youth Empowerment Partnership Programme, Belgium
Interner Link: "Street Soccer Liga Hamburg" by Dieter Galinski, Get the Kick e.V., Germany (PDF-Version: 55 KB)
04:00 – 04:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
04:30 – 05:30 p.m.
Cultural Education – A Way to Reach Hard-to-Reach-Learners
Statement:
Michael Wimmer, EDUCULT, Austria
Project Presentations:
Interner Link: Kaili Lehtemaa, Kinobuss, Estonia (PDF-Version: 882 KB)
Hans Skoglund, Kulturskolan Stockholm, Sweden
05:30 – 07:00 p.m.
Discussion and Summary
08:00 p.m.
Dinner in Amager and cultural event
Sunday, October 30, 2005
10:00 p.m.
City tour and Departure
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