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Project
Partner
Austria
Zentrum
polis - Austrian Centre for Citizenship Education in Schools
polis is the central education service institution for
citizenship education in schools. The centre helps teachers to bring
citizenship and human rights education into the classroom, serves as
an information platform and advisory centre, develops new materials
for the classroom on a regular basis, plays a part in the European and
Austrian discussions on citizenship education, has an influential role
in teacher training and organizes events for students.
With the activities on offer polis supports
skills-oriented teaching, the aim of which is a political awareness
which the student has reached through careful deliberation. In this
respect it is not primarily a question of the acquisition of the
broadest possible range of knowledge, but of learning activities which
enable the student to learn about, think about and deal with political
themes. The activities are therefore linked to the lives and
experiences of the students themselves.
polis works under contract to the Austrian Federal
Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture (Department for
Citizenship, Environmental and Consumer education).
The project administrator is the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human
Rights – Research Association.
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