Understanding

Competendo is supporting a holistic view on education and learning. A perspective which is giving equal importance to knowledge, practical skills, attitudes and values. Competence-centered facilitation acknowledges that these all play together. Competences help people to integrate what they’ve learned into their lives in complex situations, as active citizens, or use these competences in a context of societal transformation like in the digitalisation or climate crisis. Education that supports agency, autonomy, democratic resilience and change.

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Why Civic Competences?

Education for Democratic Citzenship aims to foster initiative, an active role of an individual in public life. This includes a systematic understanding of how one's individual engagement is connected to the society, the political system, or to complex social challenges and is helping citizens/learners to develop a democratic attitude toward other people and groups. All of these abilities are requirements for any successful co-creation and public engagement.

A Few Words about Words...

Competence-centered learning is the general approach.
Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education link this approach to democracy and human rights.
Cooperative, experiential, resource-oriented and learner-centered learning is the methodology.
(Self-)empowerment, democratic consciousness, more solidarity or participation are the output.
Social change, strengthened democracy and human rights are the impact.

Glossaries

Terminology of European education and training policy: 130 key terms
Published by: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
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Lifelong Learning Glossary
Review of Lifelong learning Terminologyof the Lifelong Learning Platform
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TVETipedia Glossary
UNESCO-UNEVOC Centre for technical and vocational education and training: Online
Youthwork translator
of youth work related items: EN, FR, CN, GR, DE
Published by IJAB: Online
Internet Governance Glossary
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The Globalcit Glossary
on citizenship and electoral rights by GLOBALCIT/European University Institut: PDF & Online
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Glossary of Terms
by University of Washington - School of Public Health 2021 Download