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CIVITAS World Congress: Warsaw, Poland, May 23-30, 2006 |
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Members
of our Civitas Partnership attended the 10th Annual World Conference
on Civic Education held in Warsaw, Poland. The conference was
hosted by the Center
for Civic Education and the Polish
Center for Citizenship Education.
Our partnership was represented in Warsaw by Linda Start, Michigan
Center for Civic Education, Ivana Havlinova, Civitas-CZ,
Miriam Hubova, Orava
Association for Democratic Education(Slovakia), Jane McConnell,
LRE Department of the Oklahoma
Bar Association, and Jackie Johnson, Center
for Education in Law and Democracy(Colorado).
Our
partnership co-presented a session on the impacts of Project Citizen
on civic development of students in our three nations with Senior
Research Associate Sue Root, RMC
Research Corporation, Denver.
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Our partnership session, "The Impacts of Project Citizen
on Civic Development of Students in Three Countries,"
focused on results from the first year of RMC's evaluation study of
Project Citizen, as well as implications for professional development
in the Project Citizen program.
The
session emphasized three specific recommendations in planning
professional development for Project Citizen teachers:
1. Connecting Project Citizen learning to broader principles
of democracy.
2. Coaching students so that portfolio studies are socially
meaningful and directed toward realistic changes.
3. Engaging students in authentic projects that result in interaction
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marked the 10th Anniversary of the World Congress in Civic
Education. During the conference closing ceremony, representatives
from all 10 World Congress host nations were recognized. Pictured
at right with Chuck Quigley, Executive Director, Center for
Civic Education, are Rahela Dzidic (left), Bosnia Herzegovina
and our Civitas partner, Ivana Havlinova, Civitas-CZ
(right). Prague was the site of the first World Congress in
1996. |
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partnership ate traditional Polish cuisine and celebrated Polish
culture at the final banquet held at Firleje,
a cultural event center located near Warsaw. |
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| Students
from Warsaw schools who are participating in the educational
program, "Traces
of the Past," have adopted historical monuments
in their region and shared their research with World Congress
participants. Over 800 schools and over 15,000 students have
taken part in this program that builds a sense of civic identity
and pride in students of all ages. |
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highlight of every World Congress are the students-- many of
whom traveled long distances to present their Project
Citizen portfolios to an international audience. |
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| Pope
Benedict Visit to Poland, May 24-28, 2006:
On May 24, Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Warsaw for his first
visit to Poland. He celebrated Mass before a crowd of 300,000
in Warsaw's Victory Square, where in 1979 his predecessor,
Pope John Paul II, helped to inspire the Solidarity movement
that toppled communism. |
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