We are proud to announce the imminent publication of our Springer open-access book, whose subtitle is "Revitalising Emancipatory Pedagogy in the European Education Area".

https://link.springer.com/book/9783032214942

This open access book provides a conceptual framework and a consistent series of meaningful didactic practices aimed at revitalizing critical citizenship pedagogy for democracy, beyond both methodological nationalism and cosmopolitanism. It discusses original theoretical insights into the field, highlights key structural contradictions in today's public education systems and offers operational descriptions of activities tailored to progressive developmental objectives. The book stems from ongoing research and action that has identified and is addressing the need for a more self-aware and reality-congruent citizenship education effort along the compulsory and post-compulsory school curriculum in Europe and beyond, cross-cutting any disciplinary field. This entails a paradigm shift toward what the authors call a "multiscale critical approach" to civic agency, culture and education, from the local to the global. The book contents foster an upscaled and widespread classroom experimentation in the motivating light of cooperatively developing a bottom-up contribution to a reference curriculum for citizenship education in the European Education Area. This book is intended for citizen-teachers of all disciplines and school levels, school directors, technical and vocational trainers, educational professionals including in the non-formal and informal education sectors, policy-makers and scholars who share our commitment to bring about system change in an emancipatory perspective. A perspective that is aimed at empowering what we call "emerging subjective autonomies" so as to maximise their ability to consciously and actively live their entangled condition.

Democracy is (always) at stake. The ability and willingness to put into question what we tend to take for granted is at the root of our democratic wellbeing as well as of any active and resilient democratic citizenship.

But how to nurture it at school today? To what extent schools and teachers can really play a role, instead of just helplessly bearing witness of what comes from outside?

In this webinar we develop and spread a reinvigorated “critical” approach to citizenship pedagogy that can address such issues. We will present you an insightful and stimulating framework to civically rethink the school curriculum and to renovate classroom practices, methodologies and materials in all disciplinary areas and school levels. We will show and explain how to use the freely accessible resources (for teachers training and direct classroom implementation) we develop in a multilingual paradigm on our Virtual Learning Environment on Europeans’ Unity (VLEU).

You can watch the recorded webinar here: 

Here you can also find notice of the webinar: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6966000b-39c5-40c9-9643-ff2657670720@e21d18f1-2112-4ecf-a67c-d20aedbd18b3