Workshop 4: The EU as a topic of citizenship education: The democratic deficit and the loss of trust in the European project as new challenges | NECE - Networking European Citizenship Education | bpb.de

The EU as a topic in classroom teaching and in adult education/non-formal education has occupied a firm place in curricula and seminar programmes for years. In the face of the crisis and the emergence of Eurosceptic or anti-European movements numerous initiatives have also been taken by institutions or individuals, placing the positive aspects in the focus and launching campaigns in favour of the European project. In this situation, citizenship education must ask itself, what effects it has had so far. The workshop is intended to critically take stock of mediation approaches on the topic of the EU. Questions such as: Are we mediating Europe in an excessively abstract way, or how much criticism is permitted anyway during fulfilment of the educational mandate and to which consequences this leads, are going to be discussed in a European comparison.

Inputs
Interner Link: Andreas Eis, University of Oldenburg (Germany)

Introduction & Moderation: Ondrej Matejka, Civic Education (Czech Republic)
Rapporteur: Lukas Pollmann, YEPs – Young European Professionals (Germany)

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