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Working towards Indicators on Active
Citizenship
Joint
Research Centre
The primary instruments used by the European Commission to monitor
progress
towards Community objectives are statistical indicators;
however,
there are as yet no official indicators in the field of
education and training
for active citizenship. In 2005 CRELL launched a research project on “Active
Citizenship for Democracy” in cooperation with the Council of Europe, with the aim of developing indicators to
monitor progress in this area at a European level. The resulting
indicators will provide the basis for a better understanding of active
citizenship in practice, and will, moreover, serve to
inform policy-makers about the contribution of education and training
systems to this goal.
The questions which the CRELL Research Network on “Active
Citizenship for Democracy” has been exploring are the following:
Which indicators would be appropriate to measure active citizenship?
Which indicators would be necessary to measure education and
training for active citizenship?
And what is the relationship between education and training for
active citizenship and active citizenship in practice?
With this in mind, the conference will examine proposals from the CRELL
Research Network for indicators in these two domains. The proposals for
indicators in the domain of education and training will cover each of
the formal, non-formal and informal learning sectors. The indicators on
active citizenship in practice will include the dimensions both of
political and of social and cultural participation. The papers to be
discussed will consider the availability of data for these indicators
and propose measures for satisfying data needs.
In terms of new data collection, the focus for discussion during the
conference will be the development of the new IEA survey on active
citizenship, the “International Civic and Citizenship Education Study” (ICCS).
The current proposals for a European module of the ICCS will be
presented. Based on this potential survey vehicle, the conference will
offer a forum to debate the connection between targeted learning
opportunities and the actual practice of active citizenship, further to
which it will attempt to identify what future data collection might be
required in order to understand better what constitutes effective
education and training for active and democratic citizenship.
Participation at the conference
is by invitation only. For more information, please contact Ms. Sarah
Moore (sarah.moore@jrc.it).
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