3.2 Six volumes on EDC/HRE in school projects, teaching sequences, concepts, methods and models

In many countries, teachers need assistance with the implementation of EDC/HRE. This is why the Council of Europe is also developing a series of manuals for teachers on citizenship and human rights

education. The volumes have been published in partnership with the Zurich University of Teacher Education, International Projects in Education. The Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation co-funded the manuals with the Council of Europe. This book, Volume I, Educating for democracy – Background materials for teachers, is the first in this series of six volumes. On the previous page an overview of these six manuals and its different target groups can be seen.

The manuals include lesson plans for all levels of education, with a view to promoting active citizenship based upon participatory and task-based learning in a democratic school community.

The unique feature of these manuals is that they are the outcome of a truly European project. The idea and the first version were developed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where many teachers and educators took part in the manuals’ development. The authors and editors of the final version of the manuals come from many European countries and even further afield, and the manuals themselves have been tested and revised by a large number of people of different origins and different sensi-tivities. We hope that they will be useful to teachers and learners all over Europe.