Teaching Common Values in Europe: Democracy and Tolerance in Education Policy and Practice in the E.U. Member States

• In Event: Hilton Roundtable Session 11
  In Roundtable Session: Comparative Educational Reform: Lessons From the Philippines, Ireland, Australia, Chile, China, and the EU

Abstract

Attention to the teaching of values has recently increased and is evident in the education policies of all EU Member States, also for the values of democracy and tolerance. Teaching Common Values (TCV) is fairly important in half of the EU Member States. However, TCV is often not very strongly implemented in education policy in terms of concrete curriculum instruments and in supporting measures. This results in practices that do not always give real attention to TCV. In the paper tensions on and between different levels will be analyzed (EU, Member States, Schools, Teachers, Communities).

Authors

• Wiel M. Veugelers, University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht

• Isolde de Groot, University of Humanistic Studies

• Vincent Stolk, University of Humanistics Studies