Activities of Christine ANDERSON related to 2021/2008(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Implementation of citizenship education actions (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas citizenship education must be understood as multilevel, encompassing local, regional, national, European and glob and national citizenship;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas sociopolitical changes observed in Member States, ranging from social polarisation and low institutional trust to democratic backsliding, the erosion of the rule of law, exclusionary nationalism and the instrumentalisation of Euroscepticism for political purposes, along with the rise of extremist movements and authoritarianism, may pose a serious threat to European democracies and destabilise the EU as a whole; whereas strengthening citizenship education to include free, empowered citizens in formal, non-formal, informal and lifelong- learning education could play an important role in countering this trend;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the emergence ofenforcing a dynamic European citizenship has been hindeis doomed to failured by a knowledge and emotional gap; whereas insufficientthe lack of a sense of identity vis-a-vis other states and of a feeling of belonging; whereas knowledge about the EU and poor understanding of its added value may contribute to the perception of a democratic deficit and maypparent value leads to Euroscepticism in Member States;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. RegretsWelcomes the fact that there is no common definition of citizenship education; believes that teaching citizenship education involves a combination of knowledge, skills, competences and care;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned about the limitedWelcomes the fact that there is no focus on European and global citizenship in national curricula;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets that the political consensus at European level on the need to advance citizenship education and the teaching of common European values has not been translated into concrete objectives, targets and benchmarks; concludes that citizenship education policies suffer from an implementcitizenship education is taken to be indoctrination gap;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the development of concrete objectives and benchmarks on citizenship education in the European Education Area enabling framework, including Europeanneutral, ideology-free citizenship education;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights the need to decisively advanceIs concerned theat research on how to best teach and assess citizenship education, is being misused when it is assessed taking into account new systemic and contextual changes;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls forIs concerned at standardisation with a comprehensive European strategy on European civic and citizenship education, as well as the creation of supporting platforms to promote its implementation, focusing notably on shared EU democratic values and principles;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Asks the Commission not to propose a recommendation containing indicative primary and secondary school curricula on the EU and global civic education for its voluntary adoption by the Member States,, in order to enable Member States to act independently and in full respect of Treaty provisions; believes that said common demonstrative curricula should foswill not facilitater a better understanding of the existing EU institutions, the European electoral and decision-making processes, and the history and cultures of Member States and the common links between them, also when combining different pedagogical approaches and methods, including theoretical and project- based learning;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for the establishment of a new EU agency on citizenship education tono new EU agencies to be established with the aim of improveing accessibility to and the quality of citizenship education in all Member States and to support, in order to counter the development of a European dimension in citizenship education;