Focus Group “Exchange”
Video Conference
24/06/2014
Focus Group “Exchange” Publication
Video Conference
Summary Minutes
Date:
Time frame:
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Participants:
Moez Ali, Abdelghani Bakhach, Gabriele Becker, Nelly Corbal,
Petra Grüne, Maria Hoffmann, Anja Ostermann, Louisa
Slavkova, Sascha Scheier
Not present:
Monia Ammar Feki (Her email address will be checked)
Target groups of the publication: The publication is aiming at a mostly academic
group of stakeholders: multipliers, researchers and decision takers for the European
and the North African context.
In the follow-up of the Alexandria conference in 2013, the Goethe Institut Cairo and
the Tahir Lounge will develop specific CE material that will include concrete
instructions, models, manuals on different fields of CE (e.g. on human rights). The
Focus Group „Exchange“ publication will be complementary to the GI/ Tahir Lounge
material. Also, the work process should be done parallel and complementary.
Structure of the publication: Overall, comparative approach: The publication
should be structured in a way that allows the reader to use it selectively. Without
problems the reader should be able to choose whether he/she wants to get all
information about one country or whether he/she wants to read comparatively for
example all about ecosystems of CE or about Challenges in CE.
Principles of the publication: The publication should be suitable for the different
backgrounds of the countries where it is going to be published.
Structure/Content:
Introduction
1. By the editors: A brief history of NECE Focus Groups, about the purpose of
international cooperations and the publication (may be a definition of CE that was our
common starting point)
2. Basic Principles of CE: The concept of civil society and its roots in history and
society (see contribution of Dieter Rucht at the conference in Alexandria)
(comparatively)
3. Presenting different concepts of CE in different countries (as overview)???
Main Part I:
Country Profiles (following the same structure in all country profiles)
- specific understanding of Citizenship Education
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current challenges in Citizenship Education
history of CE in this respective country
Institutions
If required, addressing the issue of principles of CE (as continuation from
introductory chapter)
Ecosystem of CE
collection of projects of good practices (good practice might also be combined
with respective questions of common concern Main Part II)
Countries to be included in the profiles:
§ NECE core partners: Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Slovenia,
Poland, Czech Republic
§ as well as UK, Western Balkan and Bulgaria, either Spain or Portugal
§ North Africa: Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria
Wrap-up of the chapter: analysis of similarities and differences
Main Part II
Questions of common concern
-­‐ CE for Young People
-­‐ Web 2.0 and Citizenship Education
-­‐ Citizenship Education and Arts und Culture
-­‐ Citizenship Education and Action/Involvement (Can CE be taught in a
theoretical way, see discussions in Cordoba)
How can we teach citizen education in schools
-­‐ Citizenship Education in conflicting societies
-­‐ Citizenship Education for hard-to-reach groups
-­‐ Dealing with the past
-­‐ Intergenerational concerns
Procedure:
Articles to be written by team of academics and practitioners.
Good practices examples
Option A) Good practices examples and approaches connected to the topics of
common concerns
Suggestion of having a contribution on the global dimension of CE
Definition of the concepts of Citizen Education to be discussed and determined
Next steps/ Allocation of tasks and responsibilities:
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Develop a structure for Main Part I:
Nelly Corbel
country profiles (methodological framework of the chapter) by 6 July 2014
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Develop a structure for Main Part II:
Questions of common concern
Petra Grüne
by 6 July 2014
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Define length of articles, including visuals
§
Collecting suggestions for potential authors
from group members
lab concepts
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Designing a timeline for publication
o Video conference meeting in late August
o Recruiting authors
o In-person meeting of FG at/after NECE
Conference in Vienna in October
o Start of writing process
lab concepts
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Distribution of summary minutes of the
video conference
lab concepts
until 27 June
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Comments on minutes
everybody
until 4 July
§
Commenting on papers/proposals concerning
structure of Part I and Part II
- forum for discussing the structure on the papers
(Abdelghani Bakhach and Ali Moez)
everybody
until end of July
§
Contributions on Morocco and Algeria (authors, topics)
Abdelghani
Bakhach