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Digital Citizenship Education Handbook (Edition 2022) Year of publication: 2022 Author: Janice Richardson | Elizabeth Milovidov Corporate author: Council of Europe Digital citizenship competences define how we act and interact online. They comprise the values, attitudes, skills and knowledge and critical understanding necessary to responsibly navigate the constantly evolving digital world, and to shape technology to meet our own needs rather than to be shaped by it. The Digital citizenship education handbook offers information, tools and good practice to support the development of these competences in keeping with the Council of Europe’s vocation to empower and protect children, enabling them to live together as equals in today’s culturally diverse democratic societies, both on- and offline.The Digital citizenship education handbook is intended for teachers and parents, education decision makers and platform providers alike. It describes in depth the multiple dimensions that make up each of 10 digital citizenship domains, and includes a fact sheet on each domain providing ideas, good practice and further references to support educators in building the competences that will stand children in good stead when they are confronted with the challenges of tomorrow’s digital world. The Digital citizenship education handbook is consistent with the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and compatible for use with the Internet literacy handbook. 
General Policy Recommendation No. 15 of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance: On Combating Hate Speech Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: Council of Europe | European Committee against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) The file is the recommendations of the European Committee against Racism and Intolerance on combating hate speech for countries. The file contains statistics and criteria established by the Commission. There are 10 recommendations made by the committee. 
Competences for Democratic Culture: Living together as equals in culturally diverse democratic societies Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: Council of Europe This document is a product of a Council of Europe project which is taking place in four phases during 2014-17. The first phase has been devoted to the development of a conceptual model of the competences which citizens require to participate effectively in a culture of democracy. This document describes the model and the methods that were used to develop it. The document is aimed at readers who wish to understand the underlying assumptions and technical details of the model. Phase two of the project will be devoted to the development of descriptors (i.e. statements or descriptions of what a person is able to do if they have mastered the various competences that are specified by the model), phase three to ascertaining whether it is possible to assign the descriptors to levels of proficiency, and phase four to the production of supporting documentation. This documentation will be addressed to educational practitioners and policy makers, and will provide a less technical description of the current competence model. It will also explain how the model and the descriptors can be used to assist curriculum design, pedagogical design and the development of new forms of assessment (for use in either selfassessment or assessment by others). All of the materials that are produced by the project will eventually be incorporated into a Council of Europe reference framework of competences for democratic culture. Further information about the project is available from the project website: www.coe.int/competences 
Peace Education: Handbook for Educators Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: International Falcon Movement-Socialist Educational International (IFM-SEI) | Council of Europe This document presents peace education tools so that children and adolescents can play a vital role, changing individual attitudes and examining the social, economic and political context to understand where conflicts come from and how to transform them. 
Bank of Digital Task Sheets Corporate author: Council of Europe Around forty sheets of tasks anchored in real life and reflective tasks are available. The proposed tasks implement the didactic framework that promotes a socio-interactional approach and extends the usual typology of tasks with tasks anchored in real life.These tasks, carried out on online participatory sites, allow the people who carry them out to experience both authentic (inter)actions and digital citizenship.Alongside these tasks, reflective tasks invite learners to reflect on online practices and in particular on their own uses of digital technology. They are to be adapted according to the contexts of use and provide examples of the implementation of the approach defined in the Didactic Framework. 
Citizens as Users of Languages and Digital Technology Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) | Council of Europe A recent meta-analysis of the literature portrays male and female citizens who are users of languages and digital technologies. This helps to understand the goals of an education aimed at developing male and female citizens capable of using digital technology in a competent, informed, safe, responsible, ethical, and critical manner. 
Brief Guidance Guide: To Combat Hate Speech on the Internet Through Human Rights Education Year of publication: 2016 Author: Ellie Keen | Mara Georgescu Corporate author: Youth Institute | Council of Europe The Youth Institute has published “Bookmarks”, a guide to combat hate speech on the Internet, which aims to be a brief and useful manual for the dissemination of concepts related to human rights and freedom of expression, as well as to raise and face the challenge of defending these rights on the Internet from a young perspective. It also aims to become a practical tool for action, training and awareness-raising work, aimed at both young people themselves and trainers, to establish in a simple way the essential concepts related to online hate speech and provide mechanisms to combat it. 
Global Education Guidelines 2019: Concepts and Methodologies on Global Education for Educators and Policy Makers Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: North-South Centre of the Council of Europe | Council of Europe The Global Education Guidelines are an initiative of the Global Education Programme of the North South Centre of the Council of Europe, and answer a need expressed by the North-South Centre’s (NSC) network of global education practitioners – the Global Education network - to have a common tool, built on experience gained by the network and other partners, to support educators to comprehend and successfully design, implement and carry out global education initiatives and learning activities. This updated edition of the Guidelines includes novelties and responds to the challenge of being a user-friendly handbook, by (i) introducing the concept of competence-based learning, with the Council of Europe Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and the OECD concept of global competences, and explains in detail and with practical examples and user friendly tools how global education can make use of competence-based learning to empower learners; (ii) has broadened the content of the chapter on methodology and methods, with step by step guides for the daily work of practitioners, educators and facilitators, and further exemplifying the competence-based learning concept; and (iii) by including a new chapter on media literacy to support practitioners and learners to navigate today’s communication and digital challenges. 
Inclusion from the start: guidelines on inclusive early childhood care and education for Roma children Year of publication: 2014 Corporate author: UNESCO | Council of Europe Inclusion from the start: guidelines on inclusive early childhood care and education for Roma children (Guidelines hereafter) is a joint contribution by the Council of Europe and UNESCO to improving access to quality early childhood services for Roma children. They are a concrete follow-up to the recommendations arising from an expert meeting, organised by the two organisations in 2007.1 Recognising that quality early childhood experience is an important stepping stone toward inclusive participation in school and society, the Guidelines address the challenges specifc to Roma children in the early years and transition to primary education. They provide guidance on key themes, such as the conceptualisation of early childhood care and education (ECCE) services, agenda-setting, stakeholders’ responsibilities, curricular and pedagogical approaches, staf training and professional development, assessment and transition to primary education. The Guidelines primarily address formal ECCE services – such as kindergartens and preschools – which typically cater for children from ages 3-6 years. The reason for this focus is that providing care and education experience prior to primary school entry is crucial for supporting Roma children’s school readiness and for facilitating an equal start in their frst year. This being said, the Guidelines also acknowledge the critical importance of the years pre-natal to age 3, and consider health and nutrition interventions and non-formal ECCE programmes (e.g. community-based childcare, parenting education) as essential services in deprived neighbourhoods and settlements. COMPASS: a manual on human rights education with young people Year of publication: 2012 Author: Patricia Brander Corporate author: Council of Europe Compass was first published in 2002 within the framework of the Human Rights Education Youth Programme of the Directorate of Youth and Sport of the Council of Europe. The programme was created because human rights education – meaning educational programmes and activities that focus on promoting equality in human dignity – was and remains of incalculable value in shaping a dimension of democratic citizenship for all young people and in promoting a culture of universal human rights.Compass has become a reference manual for many young people involved in value-based youth work and non-formal education. It is currently available in more than 30 languages, ranging from Arabic and Japanese to Icelandic and Basque. In some countries it has become part of the resources for human rights education in schools and in some others it is not possible to use it in schools. The adventures of Compass across Europe often mirror the contrasted reality of human rights education: promoted here and combated there, praised by some and despised by others.The success of Compass has been followed by its younger sibling, Compasito – a manual for human rights education with children is already available in several languages and on the way to becoming another bestseller for human rights education. More importantly, Compass and its publication in various language versions has been the medium through which human rights education has been brought onto the agenda of youth work and into the programme of many schools. National networks for human rights education have been created in several countries, where they reinforce the work done by human rights organisations and educational professionals in making the right to human rights education a reality to more children and young people across Europe. The forum on human rights education with young people, Living, Learning, Acting for Human Rights, held in Budapest in 2009, stressed the importance of human rights education today.