#civiceducation — Public Fediverse posts

Is Challenging Election Results Anti-Democratic or Just? It provides a detailed overview of the ethical complexities involved, offering much-needed clarity on how informed citizens can navigate hidden risks and maintain safe decision-making standards in their civic and digital lives.

Read here:
https://www.djoinerbooks.com/is-challenging-election-results-anti-democratic-just/

#Politics #Democracy #CivicEducation #PublicInterest #Governance #SocialScience

Sometimes the real outcome of civic education is not knowledge gained, but agency returned.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/designing-democracy-a-new-method?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy
#CivicEducation
#CivicTech
#DigitalDemocracy
#YouthEngagement
#ParticipatoryLearning
#PeaceEducation
#EuropeanYouth
#EUProjects
#EducationInnovation

Sometimes the real outcome of civic education is not knowledge gained, but agency returned.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/designing-democracy-a-new-method?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy
#CivicEducation
#CivicTech
#DigitalDemocracy
#YouthEngagement
#ParticipatoryLearning
#PeaceEducation
#EuropeanYouth
#EUProjects
#EducationInnovation

Sometimes the real outcome of civic education is not knowledge gained, but agency returned.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/designing-democracy-a-new-method?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy
#CivicEducation
#CivicTech
#DigitalDemocracy
#YouthEngagement
#ParticipatoryLearning
#PeaceEducation
#EuropeanYouth
#EUProjects
#EducationInnovation

Sometimes the real outcome of civic education is not knowledge gained, but agency returned.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/designing-democracy-a-new-method?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy
#CivicEducation
#CivicTech
#DigitalDemocracy
#YouthEngagement
#ParticipatoryLearning
#PeaceEducation
#EuropeanYouth
#EUProjects
#EducationInnovation

Peace doesn’t begin when conflict ends. It begins when learning never stops.

Sometimes the most important work of peace happens in the design of everyday spaces.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/the-systemic-peace-blueprint

#PeaceEducation
#CivicEducation
#DemocracyEducation
#YouthWork
#SystemsThinking
#Teachers

Peace doesn’t begin when conflict ends. It begins when learning never stops.

Sometimes the most important work of peace happens in the design of everyday spaces.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/the-systemic-peace-blueprint

#PeaceEducation
#CivicEducation
#DemocracyEducation
#YouthWork
#SystemsThinking
#Teachers

Clean air is one of the EU’s quietest achievements: public health, science, regulation, and collective responsibility working in the background.

Sometimes, the strongest proof that policy matters is not drama.

It is the ordinary miracle of breathing safely.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/eu-in-practice-air-quality-standards?r=6l8ed8

#EUinPractice #EuropeanUnion #CleanAir #AirQuality #CivicEducation #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalPolicy #YouthEducation #DemocracyMatters

A learning space can feel like “content” or like somewhere people can actually meet.

In Youth4Peace, we built the EU Democracy Campus as a VR space where young people could explore memory, disagreement, crisis, dialogue, and democratic futures together.

Technology doesn't solve democracy.

But a well-designed space can help people practise it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/annex-4-insights-into-the-vr-environment?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#CivicEducation #DemocracyEducation #PositivePeace #DigitalLearning #VRLearning #Youth #CivicParticipation #PeaceEducation

A learning space can feel like “content” or like somewhere people can actually meet.

In Youth4Peace, we built the EU Democracy Campus as a VR space where young people could explore memory, disagreement, crisis, dialogue, and democratic futures together.

Technology doesn't solve democracy.

But a well-designed space can help people practise it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/annex-4-insights-into-the-vr-environment?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#CivicEducation #DemocracyEducation #PositivePeace #DigitalLearning #VRLearning #Youth #CivicParticipation #PeaceEducation

Rights matter most the moment someone realizes:

this applies to me.

Not just in courtrooms or politics.
In school, at work, online, in everyday life.

This final episode is about that shift — when rights stop feeling abstract and start becoming personal, usable, and real.

Because the Charter matters most when we know it is ours.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/know-your-rights-eu-citizenship-courage-charter?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#HumanRights #KnowYourRights #EUCitizenship #EUCharter #CivicEducation #ActiveCitizenship #RightsLiteracy #Democracy #Citizenship

We often talk about rights as freedoms.

The right to speak. The right to vote. The right to protest.

But some of the most important rights are quieter than that.

They show up in whether you can see a doctor in time. Whether school actually opens a future. Whether support feels like dignity, or like an obstacle course.

Episode 9 of the Rights Chronicles is about those rights.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/social-economic-rights-eu-dignity-access?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#HumanRights #SocialRights #EU #CivicEducation #DigitalRights #SocialJustice #Democracy

Most of us went through school being told what to know.

Very few of us were trained in how to act when things are unclear, when no one has the answer, when the outcome depends on the interaction of multiple factors.

That gap doesn’t show up on a test.

It shows up later: in meetings, in communities, in democracies that ask for participation but never trained it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/the-gym-for-future-citizens-ceb?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Education #Democracy #FutureOfEducation #SystemsThinking #YouthAgency #LearningByDoing #CivicEducation

Most of us went through school being told what to know.

Very few of us were trained in how to act when things are unclear, when no one has the answer, when the outcome depends on the interaction of multiple factors.

That gap doesn’t show up on a test.

It shows up later: in meetings, in communities, in democracies that ask for participation but never trained it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/the-gym-for-future-citizens-ceb?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Education #Democracy #FutureOfEducation #SystemsThinking #YouthAgency #LearningByDoing #CivicEducation

Most of us went through school being told what to know.

Very few of us were trained in how to act when things are unclear, when no one has the answer, when the outcome depends on the interaction of multiple factors.

That gap doesn’t show up on a test.

It shows up later: in meetings, in communities, in democracies that ask for participation but never trained it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/the-gym-for-future-citizens-ceb?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Education #Democracy #FutureOfEducation #SystemsThinking #YouthAgency #LearningByDoing #CivicEducation

Most of us went through school being told what to know.

Very few of us were trained in how to act when things are unclear, when no one has the answer, when the outcome depends on the interaction of multiple factors.

That gap doesn’t show up on a test.

It shows up later: in meetings, in communities, in democracies that ask for participation but never trained it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/the-gym-for-future-citizens-ceb?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Education #Democracy #FutureOfEducation #SystemsThinking #YouthAgency #LearningByDoing #CivicEducation

Most of us went through school being told what to know.

Very few of us were trained in how to act when things are unclear, when no one has the answer, when the outcome depends on the interaction of multiple factors.

That gap doesn’t show up on a test.

It shows up later: in meetings, in communities, in democracies that ask for participation but never trained it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/the-gym-for-future-citizens-ceb?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Education #Democracy #FutureOfEducation #SystemsThinking #YouthAgency #LearningByDoing #CivicEducation

For a long time, we treated the emotional and the civic as separate.
One personal. One political.
But that line is breaking.
What people feel is no longer just shaping how they engage with democracy.
It is shaping the conditions under which engagement unfolds: how attention holds, how risk is perceived, how much complexity someone can stay with.
Not at the margins, but at the core.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/behind-the-work-observations-from?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy #CivicEducation #EmotionalIntelligence #PublicLife #SystemsThinking #EU

Almost nothing about our daily life feels like a constitutional question.

Until it does.

Until a decision affects us and there’s no clear reason. No clear responsibility. No clear place to push back.

That’s usually the moment we realise something shifted.

Rights are still there. But the way power operates around them has changed.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/eu-charter-fundamental-rights-teaching-digital-age?r=6l8ed8

#Rights #Democracy #DigitalRights #EU #RuleOfLaw #SystemsThinking #Governance #CivicEducation #RightsMatter

10 years of RFCDC – and we’ve been part of the journey from the very beginning 💪

The Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture by the Council of Europe shows: democracy must be learned, lived, and actively shaped – especially in times of polarization and uncertainty.

As a long-standing partner of the Council of Europe, Zentrum polis plays a key role in the national implementation in Austria 🇦🇹
From contributing to early initiatives in citizenship and human rights education to coordinating the German translation of the RFCDC and leading pilot projects:

👉 We bring European standards into practice
👉 We support educators and education systems
👉 We strengthen democratic competences in everyday learning

Whether it’s RFCDC, Digital Citizenship Education, or current initiatives like the European Space for Citizenship Education – our collaboration with the Council of Europe is both a mission and a responsibility.

Democracy education works. And it needs strong partnerships.

🔗 https://www.coe.int/en/web/education/newsroom/-/asset_publisher/fkf5o6A9gZZK/content/celebrating-a-decade-of-the-reference-framework-of-competences-for-democratic-culture-why-it-matters-more-than-ever

#DemocracyEducation #RFCDC #CouncilOfEurope #CivicEducation #ZentrumPolis #FediLZ

10 Jahre RFCDC – und wir waren von Anfang an dabei 💪

Der Referenzrahmen: Kompetenzen für eine demokratische Kultur des Europarats zeigt: Demokratie muss gelernt, gelebt und gestaltet werden – gerade in Zeiten von Polarisierung und Unsicherheit.

Als langjähriger Partner des Europarats spielt Zentrum polis eine zentrale Rolle bei der Umsetzung in Österreich 🇦🇹
Von der Mitwirkung an frühen Initiativen der Demokratie- und Menschenrechtsbildung über die Übersetzung zentraler Materialien bis hin zur Koordination der deutschsprachigen RFCDC-Ausgabe und konkreten Pilotprojekten:

👉 Wir bringen europäische Standards in die Praxis
👉 Wir unterstützen Lehrkräfte und Bildungssysteme
👉 Wir stärken demokratische Kompetenzen im Alltag

Ob RFCDC, Digital Citizenship Education oder aktuelle Initiativen wie der European Space for Citizenship Education – die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Europarat ist für uns Auftrag und Verantwortung zugleich.

Demokratiebildung wirkt. Und sie braucht starke Partnerschaften.

🔗 https://www.coe.int/en/web/education/newsroom/-/asset_publisher/fkf5o6A9gZZK/content/celebrating-a-decade-of-the-reference-framework-of-competences-for-democratic-culture-why-it-matters-more-than-ever

#Demokratiebildung #RFCDC #Europarat #CivicEducation #ZentrumPolis

10 Jahre RFCDC – und wir waren von Anfang an dabei 💪

Der Referenzrahmen: Kompetenzen für eine demokratische Kultur des Europarats zeigt: Demokratie muss gelernt, gelebt und gestaltet werden – gerade in Zeiten von Polarisierung und Unsicherheit.

Als langjähriger Partner des Europarats spielt Zentrum polis eine zentrale Rolle bei der Umsetzung in Österreich 🇦🇹
Von der Mitwirkung an frühen Initiativen der Demokratie- und Menschenrechtsbildung über die Übersetzung zentraler Materialien bis hin zur Koordination der deutschsprachigen RFCDC-Ausgabe und konkreten Pilotprojekten:

👉 Wir bringen europäische Standards in die Praxis
👉 Wir unterstützen Lehrkräfte und Bildungssysteme
👉 Wir stärken demokratische Kompetenzen im Alltag

Ob RFCDC, Digital Citizenship Education oder aktuelle Initiativen wie der European Space for Citizenship Education – die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Europarat ist für uns Auftrag und Verantwortung zugleich.

Demokratiebildung wirkt. Und sie braucht starke Partnerschaften.

🔗 https://www.coe.int/en/web/education/newsroom/-/asset_publisher/fkf5o6A9gZZK/content/celebrating-a-decade-of-the-reference-framework-of-competences-for-democratic-culture-why-it-matters-more-than-ever

#Demokratiebildung #RFCDC #Europarat #CivicEducation #ZentrumPolis

10 Jahre RFCDC – und wir waren von Anfang an dabei 💪

Der Referenzrahmen: Kompetenzen für eine demokratische Kultur des Europarats zeigt: Demokratie muss gelernt, gelebt und gestaltet werden – gerade in Zeiten von Polarisierung und Unsicherheit.

Als langjähriger Partner des Europarats spielt Zentrum polis eine zentrale Rolle bei der Umsetzung in Österreich 🇦🇹
Von der Mitwirkung an frühen Initiativen der Demokratie- und Menschenrechtsbildung über die Übersetzung zentraler Materialien bis hin zur Koordination der deutschsprachigen RFCDC-Ausgabe und konkreten Pilotprojekten:

👉 Wir bringen europäische Standards in die Praxis
👉 Wir unterstützen Lehrkräfte und Bildungssysteme
👉 Wir stärken demokratische Kompetenzen im Alltag

Ob RFCDC, Digital Citizenship Education oder aktuelle Initiativen wie der European Space for Citizenship Education – die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Europarat ist für uns Auftrag und Verantwortung zugleich.

Demokratiebildung wirkt. Und sie braucht starke Partnerschaften.

🔗 https://www.coe.int/en/web/education/newsroom/-/asset_publisher/fkf5o6A9gZZK/content/celebrating-a-decade-of-the-reference-framework-of-competences-for-democratic-culture-why-it-matters-more-than-ever

#Demokratiebildung #RFCDC #Europarat #CivicEducation #ZentrumPolis

10 Jahre RFCDC – und wir waren von Anfang an dabei 💪

Der Referenzrahmen: Kompetenzen für eine demokratische Kultur des Europarats zeigt: Demokratie muss gelernt, gelebt und gestaltet werden – gerade in Zeiten von Polarisierung und Unsicherheit.

Als langjähriger Partner des Europarats spielt Zentrum polis eine zentrale Rolle bei der Umsetzung in Österreich 🇦🇹
Von der Mitwirkung an frühen Initiativen der Demokratie- und Menschenrechtsbildung über die Übersetzung zentraler Materialien bis hin zur Koordination der deutschsprachigen RFCDC-Ausgabe und konkreten Pilotprojekten:

👉 Wir bringen europäische Standards in die Praxis
👉 Wir unterstützen Lehrkräfte und Bildungssysteme
👉 Wir stärken demokratische Kompetenzen im Alltag

Ob RFCDC, Digital Citizenship Education oder aktuelle Initiativen wie der European Space for Citizenship Education – die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Europarat ist für uns Auftrag und Verantwortung zugleich.

Demokratiebildung wirkt. Und sie braucht starke Partnerschaften.

🔗 https://www.coe.int/en/web/education/newsroom/-/asset_publisher/fkf5o6A9gZZK/content/celebrating-a-decade-of-the-reference-framework-of-competences-for-democratic-culture-why-it-matters-more-than-ever

#Demokratiebildung #RFCDC #Europarat #CivicEducation #ZentrumPolis

There’s a persistent illusion we live with:

that rights, once written down, stay.

History suggests the opposite.

They hold only as long as people remember what it took to create them, and what it costs to keep them.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #CivicEducation #EU #PoliticalEducation #HistoryMatters #DemocraticValues #RightsAndFreedoms

There’s a persistent illusion we live with:

that rights, once written down, stay.

History suggests the opposite.

They hold only as long as people remember what it took to create them, and what it costs to keep them.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #CivicEducation #EU #PoliticalEducation #HistoryMatters #DemocraticValues #RightsAndFreedoms

There’s a persistent illusion we live with:

that rights, once written down, stay.

History suggests the opposite.

They hold only as long as people remember what it took to create them, and what it costs to keep them.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #CivicEducation #EU #PoliticalEducation #HistoryMatters #DemocraticValues #RightsAndFreedoms

There’s a persistent illusion we live with:

that rights, once written down, stay.

History suggests the opposite.

They hold only as long as people remember what it took to create them, and what it costs to keep them.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #CivicEducation #EU #PoliticalEducation #HistoryMatters #DemocraticValues #RightsAndFreedoms

There’s a persistent illusion we live with:

that rights, once written down, stay.

History suggests the opposite.

They hold only as long as people remember what it took to create them, and what it costs to keep them.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/episode-2-voices-of-revolution-teaching?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #CivicEducation #EU #PoliticalEducation #HistoryMatters #DemocraticValues #RightsAndFreedoms

What if democracy wasn’t taught… but experienced?

1,000 young people stepped inside a civic metaverse to live it.
This report captures what happened — and what it might change.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/the-european-union-and-democracy?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#DigitalDemocracy #YouthParticipation #EUDemocracy #PeaceEducation #XR #Metaverse #EUProjects #CivicEducation #InnovationInEducation

What if democracy wasn’t taught… but experienced?

1,000 young people stepped inside a civic metaverse to live it.
This report captures what happened — and what it might change.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/the-european-union-and-democracy?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#DigitalDemocracy #YouthParticipation #EUDemocracy #PeaceEducation #XR #Metaverse #EUProjects #CivicEducation #InnovationInEducation

You cross a border. Your phone doesn’t notice.

No extra charges. No disruption. No second thought.

But it wasn’t always like this.

In our latest EU in Practice episode, we explore how the EU quietly removed one of the most frustrating barriers in everyday life, and what that reveals about how Europe actually works.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/eu-roaming-no-extra-charges-explained?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#EuropeanUnion
#EUPolicy
#DigitalEurope
#Roaming
#SingleMarket
#CivicEducation
#EUinPractice
#DigitalRights

Real thinking doesn’t happen automatically.

It needs structure, psychological safety, and the right questions.

Through Youth4Peace and the EU Democracy Campus, we developed a small set of tools used in debates and workshops with 1,000+ young people.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/tools-for-building-better-thinking?r=6l8ed8

#CivicEducation
#YouthParticipation
#DemocracyEducation
#Youth4Peace
#Facilitation
#Dialogue
#CriticalThinking
#EducationTools

You’ve probably seen the CE mark thousands of times.

On phone chargers, toys, kitchen appliances, power tools.

Two tiny letters printed somewhere on the label.

Most people never notice them.

But those letters represent one of the most quietly powerful systems in Europe: a shared framework that helps ensure products sold across the EU are safe to use.

It’s a small symbol with a very big system behind it.

#EuropeanUnion
#EUPolicy
#CivicEducation
#SingleMarket
#ConsumerProtection

King John did not sign the Magna Carta because he believed in human rights.
He signed it because he was cornered.

And yet, that reluctant signature helped plant one of the most radical ideas in political history:

Power must obey rules.

Eight centuries later, we still live inside that argument.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/introducing-the-right-chronicles?r=6l8ed8
#MagnaCarta
#HumanRights
#RuleOfLaw
#Democracy
#HistoryMatters
#RightsChronicles
#CivicEducation
#PoliticalHistory

Celebrate Civic Learning Week March 9-13 with film! This national event makes civic learning a priority for a stronger democracy. Our teaching resources for award-winning films can bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great for Women's History Month!

Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_content=link

#CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #WomensHistoryMonth #Education #Homeschooling #Movies #Democracy #Activism #CommunityEducation #FreePress #RankedChoiceVoting #Government

Celebrate Civic Learning Week March 9-13 with film! This national event makes civic learning a priority for a stronger democracy. Our teaching resources for award-winning films can bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great for Women's History Month!

Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_content=link

#CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #WomensHistoryMonth #Education #Homeschooling #Movies #Democracy #Activism #CommunityEducation #FreePress #RankedChoiceVoting #Government

Celebrate Civic Learning Week March 9-13 with film! This national event makes civic learning a priority for a stronger democracy. Our teaching resources for award-winning films can bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great for Women's History Month!

Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_content=link

#CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #WomensHistoryMonth #Education #Homeschooling #Movies #Democracy #Activism #CommunityEducation #FreePress #RankedChoiceVoting #Government

Celebrate Civic Learning Week March 9-13 with film! This national event makes civic learning a priority for a stronger democracy. Our teaching resources for award-winning films can bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great for Women's History Month!

Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_content=link

#CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #WomensHistoryMonth #Education #Homeschooling #Movies #Democracy #Activism #CommunityEducation #FreePress #RankedChoiceVoting #Government

Celebrate Civic Learning Week March 9-13 with film! This national event makes civic learning a priority for a stronger democracy. Our teaching resources for award-winning films can bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great for Women's History Month!

Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_content=link

#CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #WomensHistoryMonth #Education #Homeschooling #Movies #Democracy #Activism #CommunityEducation #FreePress #RankedChoiceVoting #Government

Plan ahead to teach with film for Civic Learning Week March 9-13! Boost student engagement with award-winning films to bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

We've updated our Civic Engagement Lesson Collection with new teaching resources for films from around the world, including And So It Begins, Dark Money, Majority Rules, Resisterhood, and The Crisis Scientists.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great to teach for Women's History Month: And So It Begins, Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down, He Named Me Malala, Resisterhood and The Neighborhood Storyteller.

Check out our newest classroom-ready civics lesson plans!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_term=Plan+Ahead&utm_content=Link

#Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #Civics #CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #SocialStudies #Movies #Activism #Democracy #CommunityEducation

Plan ahead to teach with film for Civic Learning Week March 9-13! Boost student engagement with award-winning films to bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

We've updated our Civic Engagement Lesson Collection with new teaching resources for films from around the world, including And So It Begins, Dark Money, Majority Rules, Resisterhood, and The Crisis Scientists.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great to teach for Women's History Month: And So It Begins, Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down, He Named Me Malala, Resisterhood and The Neighborhood Storyteller.

Check out our newest classroom-ready civics lesson plans!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_term=Plan+Ahead&utm_content=Link

#Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #Civics #CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #SocialStudies #Movies #Activism #Democracy #CommunityEducation

Plan ahead to teach with film for Civic Learning Week March 9-13! Boost student engagement with award-winning films to bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

We've updated our Civic Engagement Lesson Collection with new teaching resources for films from around the world, including And So It Begins, Dark Money, Majority Rules, Resisterhood, and The Crisis Scientists.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great to teach for Women's History Month: And So It Begins, Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down, He Named Me Malala, Resisterhood and The Neighborhood Storyteller.

Check out our newest classroom-ready civics lesson plans!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_term=Plan+Ahead&utm_content=Link

#Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #Civics #CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #SocialStudies #Movies #Activism #Democracy #CommunityEducation

Plan ahead to teach with film for Civic Learning Week March 9-13! Boost student engagement with award-winning films to bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

We've updated our Civic Engagement Lesson Collection with new teaching resources for films from around the world, including And So It Begins, Dark Money, Majority Rules, Resisterhood, and The Crisis Scientists.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great to teach for Women's History Month: And So It Begins, Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down, He Named Me Malala, Resisterhood and The Neighborhood Storyteller.

Check out our newest classroom-ready civics lesson plans!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_term=Plan+Ahead&utm_content=Link

#Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #Civics #CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #SocialStudies #Movies #Activism #Democracy #CommunityEducation

Plan ahead to teach with film for Civic Learning Week March 9-13! Boost student engagement with award-winning films to bring civics to life and inspire civic participation. For grades 5-12 plus adult/higher ed.

We've updated our Civic Engagement Lesson Collection with new teaching resources for films from around the world, including And So It Begins, Dark Money, Majority Rules, Resisterhood, and The Crisis Scientists.

⭐ This collection includes films that are also great to teach for Women's History Month: And So It Begins, Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down, He Named Me Malala, Resisterhood and The Neighborhood Storyteller.

Check out our newest classroom-ready civics lesson plans!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/civics-and-civic-engagement-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Civic+Learning+Week&utm_term=Plan+Ahead&utm_content=Link

#Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #Civics #CivicLearningWeek #CivicEducation #SocialStudies #Movies #Activism #Democracy #CommunityEducation

Most of the EU’s most important work doesn’t feel like power. It feels like normal life. That’s the paradox of prevention: when it works, it is invisible.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/eu-in-practice-air-quality-standards

#EuropeanUnion #EU #CleanAir #EUPolicy #PublicHealth
#PolicyThatWorks #CivicEducation

We tend to talk about disengagement as if it were a personal failure or a generational mood.

However, school has a bigger role to play in civic agency and political capacity than we assume.

This essay explores a concrete example of what changes when classrooms are designed differently and what that unlocks.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/the-gym-for-future-citizens-ceb?r=6l8ed8

#democracy #education #youthempowerment #school #Civiceducation #criticalThinking #politicalLiteracy #Civiceducation #activeCitizenship #participation

The quiet danger facing democracies today: not collapse by force, but decay by fatigue.

In this piece, we explore how Star Wars, the EU, and a classroom full of students reveal the same truth: complexity isn’t a flaw of democracy, it’s its shield.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/the-empire-the-republic-and-the-eu?r=6l8ed8

#Democracy #StarWars #DemocraticResilience #PowerAndPolitics #CivicEducation #PoliticalLiteracy
#TeachingDemocracy #StoriesThatTeach #PopCultureAndPolitics

Democracy is often discussed. It is rarely practiced across borders.

This short video takes you inside the EU Democracy Campus and its virtual parliament: a space designed for young Europeans to rehearse democratic participation together, across languages and borders.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/practicing-democracy-virtual-parliament

#democracy #EU #EuropeanUnion #CivicTech #EdTech #YouthParticipation #VirtualReality #education #civiceducation #experientiallearning #democracyeducation

A moment from one of our youth debates made this painfully clear: the way a single deepfake could freeze a room, shift the logic of the conversation, and turn a simple question into a crisis of orientation. It’s not that young people lack curiosity or care about truth. It’s that the informational ground beneath them never stops moving.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-knowing-what-a-youth

#democracy #civiceducation #misinformation #socialmedia #ai #democraticresilience #truth #youthDebates #politics #information #society