Ready-made teaching packages for secondary schools and workshop modules for tertiary and non-formal education. The rights you have as an EU citizen are relevant when traveling to another country and when you stay at home. Choices made at the EU level affect your daily life and can be influenced. The question is ‘how to do that’? These ready-made teaching materials improve the civic competencies of youth to exercise their EU citizenship rights and to influence choices made at the EU level. Although the EU is in reality not more than ‘five or less handshakes away’, it is experienced as distant. These five teaching packages and the additional workshop modules intend to bridge that distance and to contribute to democratic empowerment of young EU citizens.
The aim of the five teaching packages, is to let students experience how they can exercise their EU citizenship rights and how they can influence EU decision-making.
Each teaching package is centred around one protagonist that encounters a personal problem, dilemma, question or ambition. The protagonist uses the perspective of the secondary school student in his or her daily life and local habitat. The packages consist of a PowerPoint presentation containing two short animated movies and several questions and assignments, accompanied by the teaching instructions. The five teaching packages build slowly up in level of complexity.
The teaching packages are designed to fit the specific needs of your class and are in two ways modularly structured:
Part 1: 30 minutes
Part 2: 45 Minutes
In-depth theory: 15-30 Minutes
Version A: Younger pupils and/or pupils with no prior knowledge about EU citizenship.
Version B: Older pupils and/or pupils who are used to work more self-reliant.
These packages are initiated within the FP-7 financed bEUcitizen project by Utrecht University and designed, produced and tested by Public Cinema. The teaching packages have been tested in classrooms in the Netherlands.
Teaching package 1
Main character: Boris
Topic: Consumer rights
Learning objectives:
Raising awareness of how the EU protects consumer rights.
Making pupils think about rights and duties in combination with EU citizenship.
Teaching package 2
Main character: Juan
Topic: (Popular) culture
Learning objectives:
Becoming aware of the possibility of EU funding for civil projects.
Knowing where to look for EU funding opportunities.
Knowing how to cooperate with people with different ideas or stakes.
Teaching package 3
Main character: Vanja
Topic: Travel, care and education
Learning objectives:
Learning about the rights for EU citizens that come with travelling abroad.
Learning about the rights for EU citizens that come with education abroad.
Learning about the rights for EU citizens that come with health care abroad.
Teaching package 4
Main character: Lucy
Topic: Labour market
Learning objectives:
Understanding what lobbying is and how it works in the EU.
Learning how to promote your own interests.
Teaching package 5
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Teaching package 5
Advanced workshops
Advanced level workshop modules for students in tertiary and non-formal education.
In this document five workshop modules are presented for students in the age of 18-23. The workshops are about getting a grip on the EU, using the EU for problem solving, conceptualizing EU citizenship, thinking about the future of EU citizenship and on how to improve EU citizenship. The modules train a broad set of knowledge, skills and attitudes. Teachers and lecturers can use each of the module individually as a standalone workshop module or use several or all of them as a series.
These workshop modules are developed within the FP-7 financed bEUcitizen project by Zagreb University (workshops 1, 2, 3 and 5) and by Utrecht University (workshop 4).
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