Study-Visit "BEAM" - Building European Identity through Spirt, Sense and Meaning
Study-Visit "BEAM" - Building European Identity through Spirt, Sense and Meaning
Link: http://studyvisits.cedefop.europa.eu/
From October 4th - October 8th 2010, the University College of Teacher Education proudly hosted the Study-Visit BEAM, welcoming 11 European experts in education.
Active Citizenship
Why? |
At the University College of Teacher Training ideas about reform and meaningful pedagogy are taught. The aim is to connect reform and pedagogy, citizenship education and the European dimension of education. By improving self-responsibility and individual behaviour young people can contribute to a peaceful and free Europe. A novelty in Europe is combining citizenship education with democracy learning in a meaning-of-life-oriented pedagogy. This concept is based on realising of human values, the spirit of freedom, individual responsibility, and active participation in our European Community. |
What? |
Participants will learn about: • citizenship/civic education and its realisation through democracy learning; • autobiographical learning and how to gain a European identity; • different forms of reform pedagogy; • European identity through alternative teaching, differentiation, individualisation, from primary school to university; • how to deal with frontiers which are only in the mind. |
How? |
Participants will: • attend lectures; • give presentations about their own countries; • observe different types of school; • meet EU politicians and local EU experts; • visit Carinthia (Austria), Slovenia, and Italy. |
Whom? |
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Working Language: English Organizer:
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Mag. Dr. Pia-Maria Rabensteiner