Priorities of the Dutch EU-presidency; Citizenship Education

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Priorities of the Dutch EU-presidencyCitizenshi
p Education

• ERISEE 5th Working Meetingof senior officials
  from SEE
• Zagreb, November 26th, 2004.
• Jurgen Rienks
• Ministry of Education,Culture and Science, The
  Netherlands

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Structure of presentation

• Priorities in the field of Education
• Citizenship on the agenda
• Living together starts at school
• Practitioners and experts view
• Citizenship
• Keeping Citizinship on the agenda

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Priorities in the field of Education

• Main theme Learning from eachother
• New programmes for Education and Training
• Copenhagen Process in Vocational Education
  Maastricht-conference in December
• Citizenship and social cohesion.

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Citizenship on the agenda 1

• 2000 Lisbon-agenda
• greater social cohesion
• 2002 Barcelona, Education Council
• broader goals and responsibilities for education
  and training
• 2003 Brussels, Education Council
• promoting the broader role of education and its
  cultural aspects

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Citizenship on the agenda 2

• 2004 Rotterdam, informal meeting of EU-Education
  ministers
• Lliving together starts at school
• 2004 Rome, EU-summit
• European Constitutional Treaty
• Shared objectives for citizenship education
• 2004 Education council
• report on the broader role of education and its
  cultural aspects

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Living together starts at school

• Member states assign key role to schools in
  strengthening citizenship education for social
  cohesion
• Separate subject / integrated approach / mixed
  model
• Wide variety of educational practices
• Numerous initiatives in context of EU and CoE
• Conclusions
• Practices rich in grass-roots initiatives
• Room for improvement in realising evidence based
  policies and practices.

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Practitioners and experts view 1

• Initiatives that respond to local needs are most
  viable
• Consensus exists on citizenship competencies
• Early start preferable
• Importance of skills and attitudes require a new
  pedagogical vision
• Crucial how curriculum is imparted in classroom
• Values taught should be reflected in organisation
  and government of schools
• Use the world surrounding the school

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Practitioners and experts view 2

• Development of new competencies for teachers /
  adaptation of teacher training
• Quality assessment for enhancement of teaching
• Dissemination of evaluation results and good
  practices
• Commitment from education policy makers
• Funding and accountability should be in support

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Citizenship

• School citizens
• Social citizens
• National citizens
• European citizens
• European awareness
• Consciousness of shared history, values, chances
  and ambitions
• World citizens

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Keeping Citizenship on the agenda

• The new EU Education and Training programmes
• Exchange of experiences on citizenship education
• Key competencies as reference point for
  curriculum-development
• The role of teachers and other steakholders
• Measuring the effectiveness and enhancing the
  quality of citizenship education
• The European Year of Citizenship through
  Education 2005
• Eurydice survey
• European council?