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Educating in India, India - September 2008
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| Click here to read about Elk Grove Village Trustee Pat Feichter's visit to India - Elk Grove Journal Online, September 11, 2008 |
World Congress on Civic Education, Morocco - May 2008
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Estonian Teachers Visit Illinois - March 2008
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Overview
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Click here to read about Estonian headmaster Jaan Lember's visit to Chicago area schools - Chicago Tribune, March 18, 2008 |
Through a national and international network of individuals, civil
society organizations, educational institutions, and governmental
agencies, Civitas International Programs have responded for more than
a decade to the wave of democratization sweeping through Eastern Europe,
the former Soviet Union, and Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Supported
by the creativity and diversity of this network, the Center for Civic
Education works with its domestic and international partners to offer
a range of activities and programs that share the common objectives
of creating student-centered interactive curricula for the next generation
of citizens and training teachers in the methodologies appropriate
to the use of these materials in the classroom.
Many countries in the Civitas network cooperate with U.S. state partners
to manage their ongoing civic education activities through the Civitas
International Civic Education Exchange Program. These partnerships
are designed to identify the civic education needs in each U.S. state
and international site and develop programs to address those needs
in a manner that take advantage of the experience, expertise, and
programmatic offerings of the partners. Each year the Center hosts
the World Congress on Civic Education in which the best practices
of every participating country and state are shared. The World Congress
in Warsaw, Poland, in May 2006, marked the tenth anniversary of this
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| Goals |
- Acquaint international educators with exemplary curricular and
teacher training programs in civic education developed in the
United States and other participating nations.
- Assist international educators in the creating, adapting, implementing
and institutionalizing effective civic education programs in their
own countries.
- Create and implement civic education programs for students in
the United States that will help them better understand the history
and experiences of emerging democracies and other advanced democracies.
- Facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences in civic education
among educational, governmental, and private sector leaders in
the United States and emerging and established democracies.
- Encourage independent research and evaluation to determine the
effects of civic education on the development of the knowledge,
skills, and traits of character that are essential for the preservation
and improvement of constitutional democracy
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| Funding |
- Civitas International Programs are directed by the Center for
Civic Education and funded by the U.S. Department of Education
under the Education for Democracy Act approved by the United States
Congress; additional support is provided by the U.S. Department
of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and other
sources.
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