Developing values is both an active and theoretical process

EPT
EUROPEAN PORTFOLIO FOR TEACHERS
Interpersonal, Intercultural, Social and Civic Competences
for Euro-Teachers

What is citizenship in the 21st century?

How do we teach it?
How do we prepare teachers to teach citizenship?

This project will help us to train teachers in how to incorporate

citizenship issues – values and attitudes - into teaching and learning
in classrooms throughout Europe

http://www.europeancitizenship.rdg.ac.uk./
 WHY? PARTNERS
Mälardalen University
Sweden
Coordinating Institution
The goals of citizenship education

• To provide pupils with necessary

competences for life in a multicultural
and global world.
University of Reading
• To lay the ground for a sense of United Kingdom
community and collective identity within
the European Union.

• Not only to transfer values and attitudes

but also to transform them.
Hague University
Netherlands

Assumption

• In order to achieve these goals, teachers

must offer horizontal teacher-pupil
The City of Västerås, ProAros
classroom dialogue.
Support an Development Unit
Sweden

The overall aim of the project

• To elaborate the competences for

teachers so that they are able, both Teachers’ Association of Sintra
explicitly and implicitly, to promote Portugal
certain values and attitudes, such as
democratic dialogue and tolerance.

• To furnish teachers with tools that enable

them to deal with multicultural European
classrooms. In-Service Teacher Training
Centre in Czestochowa
• To enhance European mobility and Poland
employability of future teachers.
 PROJECT OUTCOMES
• Report I (published in April 2007)
Entitled: ‘Citizenship Education as a Means for Transmitting and Transforming
Values and Attitudes – Theory, Described Practice and Performed Practice’.
Gives examples of how ’citizenship’ is understood by teacher students, how it is
performed in European classrooms and how guiding documents for the school and
teacher education in each country describe it.
Can be downloaded from: www.europeancitizenship.rdg.ac.uk

• Report II (published in February 2008)

Will contain comparative studies of teacher students interpersonal, intercultural,
social and civic competences and will be based on scientifically reviewed papers.

• Pilot Course (performed in May 2009)

Will focus on teacher students competences.

• Manual I

Entitled: ‘Europass for Teachers’.

Will be based on the experiences of the pilot course.

• Manual II

Will be based on the examination task given in the pilot course and the work done
across all the teacher training institutions.

• Training Courses

The work of the project will be disseminated through a series of Comenius 2.2
courses following the project completion.
The EPT project will be presented at the Learning Teacher Network annually.

The project is a Comenius 2.1 action, which concerns development of teacher education in
accordance with the Lisbon strategy ‘Education and Training 2010’

Project number 129382-CP-1-2006-1-SE-COMENIUS-C2

 CONTACT PERSONS
Mälardalen University, Sweden
www.mdh.se

Dr Margareta Sandström-Kjellin
email: margareta.sandstrom.kjellin@mdh.se

University of Reading, United Kingdom

www.reading.ac.uk

Dr Trevor Davies
email: t.c.davies@reading.ac.uk

Hague University, Netherlands

www.hhs.nl

Dr Gerard de Kruif
email: g.w.j.dekruif@hhs.nl

City of Västerås, Sweden

www.vasteras.se/proaros

Martina Pilling
email: martina.pilling@vasteras.se

Teachers’ Association of Sintra, Portugal

www.profsintra.org/site

Mª Luisa Abreu
email: mrs.luisa.abreu@gmail.com

In-Service Teacher Training Centre

in Czestochowa, Poland
www.womczest.edu.pl

Eugeniusz Romanski
email: romanski@womczest.edu.pl