Adult Education for Democratic Citizenship Transnational Practices Analysis

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Adult Education for Democratic CitizenshipTransna
tional Practices Analysis

• Michal Bron Jr.
• Helmut Fennes

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Process

• Call for proposals in Spring 2006
• 43 Interesting and Relevant Initiatives (IRI)
• Common Guidelines small case-studies
• Analysis of practices
• Transnational analysis

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Main organisers/coordinators

• NGO (all but two)
• non-profit (all but one)
• not in formal education (all but two)
• cooperates with other NGOs (75)
• is project-oriented
• receives public (project) funding (all but two)
• is initiator of the IRI analysed (75)
• is active at local, regional, national and/or
  European level

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EDC context

• Explicit citizenship education (42)
• No explicit reference by IRI, but practice
  analysis concludes that it is EDC (16)
• IRI is implicitly/indirectly providing EDC
• Diverse degrees of coherence with EDC criteria of
  Council of Europe
• Many aspects of EDC covered

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Aims

• Participation (79)
• Empowerment (67)
• Community development (54)

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Content

• Human rights education (67)
• Intercultural education (63)
• Community education (63)
• Anti-racist education (46)
• Education for sustainable development (13)
• Environmental education (8)

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Target groups

• Diverse broad spectrum
• Selection?
• Access?

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Pedagogic aspects

• Full scope between formal, non-formal and
  informal learning
• Diversity of methods
• But traditional methods
• Walk as you talk?
• Evaluation is a standard but diverse

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Educational staff

• Diverse status from volunteers to paid staff,
  internal and external
• Experience and expertise
• Training of educational staff

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Structural aspects

• Activities at regional level (60)
• Some multilateral projects (17)
• Funding from different sources
• Public funding sources are predominant (national
  and European)
• Funding through foundations in new member states
• Few participation fees (25)