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Education Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 1378: Multiperspectivity in the EU Project ECCOPS ‘Education for Citizenship Competence to Participation and Sustainability’
Education Sciences doi: 10.3390/educsci14121378
Authors: Olga Bombardelli
I describe in this paper selected aspects of the Erasmusplus Project Education for Citizenship Competence to Participation and Sustainability, performed by three European countries, in order to empower students for civic engagement through citizenship education. The partners from Italy, Spain and Romania worked from 2021 to 2023 to develop strategies and materials to enhance the qualification of teachers in civic and citizenship education to support participation of young people across Europe. The project provides new solutions to the problems identified, in order to improve civic education, to avoid the risks of indoctrination and to offer effective teaching materials, available in open access. The main products are the Toolkit with flexible teaching/educational proposals for the students and the Guidelines for the teachers, the Matrix of competences for the teachers, and the Competence Cards for the students with indicators to (self)assess the improvements. The working materials were used in the ECCOPS Learning/Teaching/Training Activities for teachers and for students, monitored through videos observed by critical friends. I discuss in this paper especially the work carried out to foster multiperspectivity, starting from the Competence Card ‘Multiperspectivity’, with the aim of preventing radicalism and fanaticism, considering different points of view on controversial topics and developing knowledge, skills and values to enable students to have a greater understanding of what makes up an effective civic participation. The most relevant project results are expected to have an impact at both institutional and practical levels in civic and citizenship education.
