Tasks For Democracy: 60 Activities To Learn And Assess Transversal Attitudes, Skills And Knowledge Tasks For Democracy: Sixty Activities To Learn And Assess Transversal Attitudes, Skills And Knowledge

TASKs for Democracy – 60 activities to learn and assess transversal attitudes, skills and knowledge (TASKs) edited by Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard and Ildikó Lázár. PPN°4A book to support teachers in their efforts to promote democracy through and in education developed within the Pestalozzi Programme Community of Practice. This book is meant as a handbook for practitioners in formal and non-formal educational settings. It contains a rationale for the necessity to focus on competences for democracy in all areas of education, an explanation of what transversal attitudes, skills and knowledge mean and why they are important for and should be taken on board by all education professionals. A list of components forms the heart of the publication, describing the core attitudes, skills and knowledge which need to be developed by every individual in order to be able to live in and to contribute to the development and maintenance of democratic societies in their full diversity. A collection of over 50 learning and training activities, which help develop the various components, as well as a number of “re-learning” activities will help practitioners to promote the development of these components in their day-to-day educational practice. A graphic presentation of the included list of attitudes, skills and knowledge will be available soon in poster form (A1). ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5 FOREWORD Josef Huber, series editor 7 INTRODUCTION Ildikó Lázár and Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard 11 PART ONE – PRINCIPLES AND PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES 15 Transversal attitudes, skills and knowledge (TASKs) – What are they and why are they important? Ildikó Lázár 15 How to integrate TASKs in everyday practice Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard 17 How does co-operative learning contribute to the prevention of discrimination and violence in schools? Ferenc Arató 22 PART TWO – TOOLBOX 33 TASKs for democracy: core components of competences for democracy Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard 33 Learning and training activities Ildikó Lázár and Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard 42 On the importance of debriefing: a sample activity described in detail Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard 43 Activities 1-6 – 15-25 minutes 47 Activities 7-11 – 30-45 minutes 61 Activities 12-20 – 60 minutes 75 Activities 21-26 – 90 minutes 115 Activities 27-36 – 120 minutes 149 Activities 37-41 – 150 minutes 195 Activities 42-50 – 180 minutes 229 Activities 51-54 – Session evaluation activities 283 Activities for recognising learning with regard to developing democratic competences Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard 293 FURTHER READING AND RESOURCES 323 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 325 APPENDIX 327 INDEX OF ACTIVITIES 329 Series Editor: Josef Huber ; Edited By Pascale Mompoint-gaillard And Ildikó Lázár. Includes Bibliographical References.