Transferability

SC (Democratic Education in Schools) is a European project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme (Key Action 2 – Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practice). The project aims to promote the integration of the democratic education approach in European education systems as a way of fostering life and citizenship competences in schools.

DESC has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of 10 partners in 5 countries, including democratic schools, state schools, state school networks and universities. These are: GO! Scholengroep and Omnimundo (Belgium) and QUEST (Quality Education in Europe for Sustainable Social Transformation) Leiutajate Külakool and Varstu School (Estonia), OU “N.Y.Vaptsarov” Selanovtsi and Community for Democratic Education (Bulgaria), Istituto Comprensivo Carducci di Busca, Albero della Tuscia (Italy) University of La Laguna (Spain).

To achieve this goal, the DESC project is divided into four main project outcomes:

PR1 Research report;

PR2 Teacher training;

PR3 PLATFORM
PR3 DESC TRAINING;

PR4 Guidelines and policy recommendations.

This guide responds to PR4.1, based on the qualitative analysis of partner institutions’ responses to two interviews on national policies and vision on democratic education. This report captures the diversity around the two topics and makes recommendations aimed at facilitating the ESCR paradigm in European schools, being aware of the diversity of the starting point, efforts are also made differently in each educational context.

Autoría

• María Inmaculada Fernández Esteban 
• Ana Luisa Sanabria Mesa
• Cecilia Verónica Becerra Brito
• Anabel Bethencourt Aguilar
• Sara González Pérez
• Ainoa Escribano Miralles 

The licence allows for translations respecting the content. The authors are not responsible for the translations of other partners.