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Lecturer(s)
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Havlínová Ivana, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction to the course. 2. What does it mean to be a citizen? Three kinds of citizens by Westheimer - Kahn. 3. Citizen - civil society - democracy. 4. Road to democracy - principles of democracy. 5. Who belongs and who governs in a democracy. 6. Core democratic values. 7. Responsibility in democracy 8. Authority and democratic society 9. Individual rights and common good 10. What conditions support democracy. 11. Equality and democracy 12. How do democracies emerge, develop, survive and improve. 13. How do democracies shape the world and how the world shape democracies. 14. Democracy and globalization.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course is based on the analyses of the issues connected to the problems of a citizenship and democratic society, core democratic values and principles facing challenges of the 21st century. Students are enabled to work with opinion diversity through model situations, to formulate their attitudes, to analyze or to develop solutions.
Students are enabled to work with opinion diversity through model situations, to formulate their attitudes, to analyze or to develop solutions.
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Essay on a selected issue of the subject approved by the teacher, presentation of a selected issue.
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Recommended literature
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Council of Europe. Competences for Democratic Culture: Living Together as Equals in Culturally Diverse Democratic Societies. Strasbourg, 2016.
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Hess, D. Controversy in the Classroom: the Democratic Power of Discussion.
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Johnson, J., Johnson, J. Creative Controversy: Intellectual Conflict in the Classroom. Edina, 1995.
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Kahne, J., Westheimer, J.. What kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy.
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Miller, D. Citizenship nad National Identirty.. Cambridge, 2005.
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