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"Building a culture of tolerance and participation in schools"
Sovata, 1-10 July 2010
In the present days, there is an increased need to the formation of an active and informed responsible and tolerant community. The role of education in creating such a citizenry is now almost universally acknowledged. Tolerance and the ability to engage in public life and affairs intelligently and responsibly is something that has to be learned. While a certain amount may be picked up informally in the family, the nature of life today is that this can never be sufficient to produce the kind of informed and effective citizens that modern democracies require to maintain their continued existence.
Human Rights Education needs to be a feature of formal as well as informal education, and an entitlement for all citizens in a democratic society.
The Training Course is funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, Europe for Citizens Programme.
The Course is designed as an open space of mutual learning, based on non-formal education and experiential learning methodologies. The Preparatory and the Trainers Team are composed by experienced indoor as well as outdoor trainers. The Training course will develop knowledge and competences in key concepts of human rights education with school students, the participants will become familiar with the approaches and activities of COMPASS and COMPASITO and will also learn how to best to use it and adapt it to local context and realities. The Training will also develop competences, skills and attitudes that are the most appropriate in the human rights education.
The course is open to 28 participants coming from Hungary (8 participants + 1 trainer), Slovakia (8 participants) and Romania (12 participants + 3 trainers).
The target group of the training is teachers and educators working in mainstream schools, in primary as well as high schools. The teachers involved in the Training will become multipliers and they will be provided with new teaching methods and this will help to bridge the existing methodological gaps between formal and non-formal education.
The training participants will be mainly teachers and educators who are strongly motivated to introduce the human rights within their teaching curricula, and who want to consolidate their professional skills, acquire new skills, who are firmly convinced that tolerance and mutual respect build the basis of a democratic society. Additionally, we expect to our training young motivated persons who work at NGO’s or deal with social questions and are interested in human rights, tolerance, and mutual respect and are willing in enlarging their knowledge in these areas as well as trying out and implementing new methods and techniques.
* Accommodation
Board and lodging will be provided and entirely covered by the host NGO (CEMO). The venue of the course will be at Outward Bound International Youth Center in Sovata/Szováta (http://www.outwardbound.ro/index.php?area=22&language_id=9&page_id=85), located in Mureş/Maros county, Romania.
* Enrolment fee
The enrolment fee for the participants will be 20 Euro.
* Travel expenses
The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in its Europe for Citizens Programme does not provide fund for covering the participants travel expenses. However, participants are encouraged to find matching funds for covering their travel costs. Given the fact that there are low cost airlines flying in Tirgu Mures (Marosvásárhely) on regular basis, the travel expenses of the participants arriving from Slovakia and Hungary will be around 50-80 Euros.
NOTE!! Applications should be sent to the e-mail: batizan.emese@cemo.ro
More information, detalied program and the application for can be found in the
attached documents.
Attachments:
Training Program
Application Form
Training Description
Call for participants
"Building a culture of tolerance and participation in schools"
Sovata, 1-10 July 2010
In the present days, there is an increased need to the formation of an active and informed responsible and tolerant community. The role of education in creating such a citizenry is now almost universally acknowledged. Tolerance and the ability to engage in public life and affairs intelligently and responsibly is something that has to be learned. While a certain amount may be picked up informally in the family, the nature of life today is that this can never be sufficient to produce the kind of informed and effective citizens that modern democracies require to maintain their continued existence.
Human Rights Education needs to be a feature of formal as well as informal education, and an entitlement for all citizens in a democratic society.
The Training Course is funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, Europe for Citizens Programme.
The Course is designed as an open space of mutual learning, based on non-formal education and experiential learning methodologies. The Preparatory and the Trainers Team are composed by experienced indoor as well as outdoor trainers. The Training course will develop knowledge and competences in key concepts of human rights education with school students, the participants will become familiar with the approaches and activities of COMPASS and COMPASITO and will also learn how to best to use it and adapt it to local context and realities. The Training will also develop competences, skills and attitudes that are the most appropriate in the human rights education.
The course is open to 28 participants coming from Hungary (8 participants + 1 trainer), Slovakia (8 participants) and Romania (12 participants + 3 trainers).
The target group of the training is teachers and educators working in mainstream schools, in primary as well as high schools. The teachers involved in the Training will become multipliers and they will be provided with new teaching methods and this will help to bridge the existing methodological gaps between formal and non-formal education.
The training participants will be mainly teachers and educators who are strongly motivated to introduce the human rights within their teaching curricula, and who want to consolidate their professional skills, acquire new skills, who are firmly convinced that tolerance and mutual respect build the basis of a democratic society. Additionally, we expect to our training young motivated persons who work at NGO’s or deal with social questions and are interested in human rights, tolerance, and mutual respect and are willing in enlarging their knowledge in these areas as well as trying out and implementing new methods and techniques.
* Accommodation
Board and lodging will be provided and entirely covered by the host NGO (CEMO). The venue of the course will be at Outward Bound International Youth Center in Sovata/Szováta (http://www.outwardbound.ro/index.php?area=22&language_id=9&page_id=85), located in Mureş/Maros county, Romania.
* Enrolment fee
The enrolment fee for the participants will be 20 Euro.
* Travel expenses
The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in its Europe for Citizens Programme does not provide fund for covering the participants travel expenses. However, participants are encouraged to find matching funds for covering their travel costs. Given the fact that there are low cost airlines flying in Tirgu Mures (Marosvásárhely) on regular basis, the travel expenses of the participants arriving from Slovakia and Hungary will be around 50-80 Euros.
NOTE!! Applications should be sent to the e-mail: batizan.emese@cemo.ro
More information, detalied program and the application for can be found in the
attached documents.
Attachments:
Training Program
Application Form
Training Description
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