Supporting learners to take action, and to participate in democratic processes

Supporting learners to take action, and to participate in democratic processes

  • The pillars of Modern Democratic rules are: Citizen participation, equality, political tolerance, accountability, transparency, regular, free and fair elections, economic freedom, control of the abuse of power, bill of rights, a culture of accepting the results of elections, Human rights, multi-party system, neutrality of state institutions, Rule of law.[1] Quality and effective regular, free and fair elections consist of two…

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  • As leadership expert Warren Bennis once stated, “leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Leadership means different things to different people around the world, and different things in different situations. For example, it could relate to community leadership, religious leadership, political leadership, and leadership of campaigning groups. The words “leader” and “leadership” are often used incorrectly to describe…

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  • Interest in the political life of society is a stepping stone to involvement in community life and vice versa. An interest in politics stimulates an individual to become informed about how the policy-making process works, what the opinions of different stakeholders are, and what means of participation are available. This article makes an overview of the “participation” part of the…

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  • Youth participation includes a wide variety of practices such as civic education of young people, volunteering and community activism. The survey wanted to focus only on forms of participation which aim to support and enable young people to influence political or public body decision making; To develop the descriptions for each form, it drew on the work of Gretschel et…

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  • Traditional forms of youth participation Bacalso (2016) argues that traditional forms of youth participation are concerned with “formal politics, broader policy goals, typically hierarchical institutions, and long-term engagement”. Such forms are likely to employ the ‘youth development model’ where youth is seen as a transitional stage – with participation mainly about young people learning to become active citizens rather than…

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  • Participation is not an easy concept to define. Most reflections go into a direction where participation is rather a process than a one-time event[1]. Participation is an essential element of citizenship in a democratic society, and democratic Europe. European institutions and organizations repeatedly emphasize the importance of youth participation to foster young people’s active citizenship, enhance their integration, their inclusion…

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