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POLICY PROPOSAL – 2021 No.5 - HOW DO WE TEACH DEMOCRACY?

30 Nov 2021

The teaching of established themselves in the more of methodological preparedness; the democratic competencies needs to receive developed education systems across frontal character of elementary and ability to follow social norms; a proper emphasis in the education of the world, Hungarian education, too, secondary education; as well as the 7. [...] WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? democratic socialisation up to the families and the media The foundation and essence of democracy is that – or to the alternative school system and the NGOs that everyone can be involved in making the decisions are willing to step up – while it has shied away from the that affect their lives. [...] A “good citizen” is aware of the diversity of life 07 COOPERATION As a school subject that is of pre-eminent complexity and they can assess the impact of these problems situations and of the differences in individual motivations importance with respect to both, the political on themselves and their immediate environment. [...] It obviously schools also means that the does not serve to strengthen the ideal of democratic civic- depoliticization of elementary mindedness when the democratic experience is limited to a single school subject, which immediately ends as the and secondary education school bell rings to announce the end of the class: the needs to end. [...] These topics include robotization, the transforming labour market, the air quality and the pollution of freshwater, national identity and the role of com- munities in a society, the future of education, the country’s economic take-off, or the changing world order.
Pages
11
Published in
Hungary