USEFUL RESOURCES:

 

 

 

I. EDC CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS, PRACTICES

Documents

 

Council of Europe

Basic Concepts and core competencies for education for democratic citizenship, by Audigier, F.

In English, Romanian, Serbian, Albanian

 

Sites of Citizenship: Empowerment, participation and partnership, by Carey, L. and Forrester, K.

In English

 

Strategies for Learning Democratic Citizenship, by Duerr, K., Spajic-Vrkas, V. and Ferreira Martins, I.

In English

 

Education for democratic citizenship: a lifelong learning perspective, By C. Bîrzéa

In English, Albanian, Serbian

 

The All-European Study on Pupils Participation in School – The School: a democratic learning community, By Dr Karlheinz Duerr

In English

 

Developing a shared understanding. A Glossary of terms for Education for Democratic Citizenship, by O'Shea, K.

In English

 

Draft common guidelines for Education for Democratic Citizenship

In English

 

Recommendation Rec (2002)12 of the Committee of Ministers

to member states on education for democratic citizenship

In English

 

Eurydice :

Citizenship education at school in Europe

In English

 

Websites

 

Council of Europe:

Council of Europe EDC website

 

Council of Europe European Year of Citizenship through Education

 

UNESCO : Human rights education

 

D@dalos

 

Democracy and Human Rights Education – DARE

 

Human Rights Education Associates

 

Bertelsmann Foundation :

International Network on Education for democracy, human rights and tolerance

 

Education for Citizenship in Scotland

England the citizenship website

 

II. EDC POLICIES

Documents

 

All-European Study on Policies for Democratic Education (EDC).

In English

 

Stocktaking Research on Policies for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Management Diversity in SEE:

 

Regional Analysis and Intervention Proposals, by Harrison, C. and Baumgartl, B.

In English, Albanian, Romanian

 

Country reports

Albania – in English, Serbian

Bulgaria – in English

Croatia – in English, Bulgarian

Macedonia – in English

Kosovo – in English

Montenegro – in English

Romania – in English, Albanian, Serbian

Serbia – in English

Slovenia – in English, Romanian

 

Websites

 

Council of Europe: EDC website

 

European Year of Citizenship through Education

 

 

 

 

III. QUALITY ASSURANCE IN EDUCATION

III.1. Quality in education

Documents

 

Cooperation as the key to quality, (pupils, parents, secondary heads), OBESSU, EPA, ESHA, March 1998

In English

Governance for quality of education, OSI, Institute for educational policy, April 2000, conference proceedings

In English

 

Council of Europe: 

Prague Forum on educational reforms in Europe: raising quality, visions and realities, April 2003

In English

 

Declaration by the European Ministers of Education on intercultural education in the new European context, Standing Conference of European Ministers of Education, Athens, Greece, 2003

In English

 

European Union :

Quality in education. Transparency and stakeholder participation, EU Presidency conference, Denmark, November 2002

In English

 

OECD

Raising the quality of learning for all, meeting of OECD Ministers of Education, March 2004

In English

 

Websites

 

UNESCO :

Human rights education at the heart of quality education

 

III.2. Indicators

2.1. Countries

Documents

 

Flanders, Belgium:

Evaluating cross-curricular subjects

In English

 

Scotland, UK:

How good is our school? Self-evaluation using quality indicators

In English

Sweden:

BRUK indicators: Testing the national indicator system

(power point presentation)

In English

 

 

Websites

2.2. Organisations

Documents

 

European Union :

European Report on the Quality of School Evaluation

Sixteen Quality Indicators, May 2000

In English

 

European report on quality indicators of lifelong learning

Fifteen Quality Indicators, June 2002

In English

 

Council conclusions on new indicators in education and training, May 2005

In English

 

Standing International Conference of Inspectorates (SICI)

Indicators for good schools: analysis and a proposal, SICI workshop, 25-26 February 1999   

In English

 

Websites

 

Standing International Conference of Inspectorates (SICI)

 

III.3. School (self-)evaluation

3.1. Countries

 

Documents

 

Flanders, Belgium:

Evaluating cross-curricular subjects

In English

 

Ireland:

Whole school evaluation

In English

 

Scotland, UK:

How good is our school?

Self-evaluation using quality indicators

In English

 

Websites

 

Slovenia:

School self-evaluation questionnaires

 

Sweden:

Qualis Project. Twelve municipalities in Sweden carried out an overall assessment of local schools

 

 

 

3.2. Organisations

 

Documents

 

Standing International Conference of Inspectorates (SICI) :

Effective school self-evaluation (ESSE project)

School self-evaluation in thirteen countries

In English 

 

Eurydice:

Evaluation of schools providing compulsory education in Europe

In English

 

Websites

 

Standing International Conference of Inspectorates (SICI)

 

Eurydice:

National reports on school evaluation

 

Open Society Institute:

Quality Assessment Recourse Pack

 

Bertelsmann Foundation :

Evaluation in the field of education for democracy, human rights and tolerance

 



3.3. European /international projects and networks

Documents

 

Evaluation of quality in school education. A European pilot project

- Final Report

- Practical guide

Websites

 

I-Probe Net. Comenius 3 network on self-evaluation projects and project-based learning at school

 

The Treasure Within. Comenius 3 network on evaluation of quality in education

 

Bridges across boundaries : crossdisseminating quality development practices for schools in southern & eastern Europe 

 

International Network of Innovative School Systems (INIS). Bertelsmann Foundation

 

III.4. School development planning

Documents

 

Ireland :

- Developing a school plan. Guidelines for primary schools

In English  

 

- School development planning. An introduction for second level schools

In English

 

Websites

 

Ireland:

School Development Planning Initiative

 

III.5. Inspection

Documents

 

 

 

Websites

 

Standing International Conference of Inspectorates (SICI)

 

SEE-ECN Seminar on:

Reconstructing middle-level organizations: Inspection and Evaluation of Schools; experience - ideas - exchange,

March 2003, Belgrade, Serbia

III.6. Accountability

Documents

 

Educational accountability: The State of the Art

International Network of Innovative schools (INIS), Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers, 1999:

In English

 

 

Websites

 

International Network of Innovative School Systems (INIS). Bertelsmann Foundation

 

IV. QUALITY ASSURANCE OF EDC

Documents

 

England, UK

Citizenship education – guidance on assessment, recording and reporting

In English

 

Inspecting citizenship education

In English

 

Citizenship education self-evaluation tool

In English

 

Scotland, UK

Education for citizenship. A paper for discussion and development

In English

 

How good is our school? Citizenship education. 2003

In English

 

Education for citizenship. Secondary audit materials

In English

 

SICI/CIDREE

Raising the effectiveness of Citizenship Education. The perspectives of curriculum developers, school inspectors and researchers, workshop, Belgium, 30-31 May 2002

In English

 

Websites