Seminar:
Closing the empowerment gap through citizenship education

How to address educationally disadvantaged groups

Art & Cultural Center Fabryka Trzciny
ul. Otwocka 14
03-759 Warsaw
Brüssel und Europa

Beschreibung:

At the conference the complex changes regarding civic participation in Europe and its  effects  on  socially  disadvantaged  groups will be discussed.  On  the one  hand  citizens  tend  to  refrain  from traditional political participation. On the other hand a rising number of new ways of getting involved in politics and society i.e. using new media have emerged.  
 
However,  these new forms of political involvement are to a  large extent determined by the access to education, and by  income and skills. Groups with no access  to  these  resources  remain widely excluded  from participation  in civil society and political processes. Socially disadvantaged groups with poor educational opportunities suffer from a conspicuous ‘empowerment gap’.
 
Experts and activists  in  the  fields of citizenship and cultural education, youth and social workers, NGO  representatives  will  meet  in  Warsaw  to  discuss the  role  of  citizenship  education  in  this context. How can citizenship education become a suitable tool for closing the empowerment gap?  

Benjamin  R.  Barber,  president  of  the  NGO  CivWorld  at  Dēmos  and internationally  renowned political theorist, will deliver the keynote speech at the conference opening on 17 November 2011.

Veranstalter:

German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), NECE - Networking European Citizenship Education

Ansprechpartner:

lab concepts GmbH

E-Mail / Fax für Anmeldungen:

nece-warsaw(at)lab-concepts.de

Telefonnummer des Veranstalters:

+49 (0)228 2498 110

Teilnehmerbeitrag:

€ 50, reduced fee for students €25

Weitere Informationen:

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