Council and Union

Programme

9.00 Welcome coffee and registration
9.30 Opening Remarks
9.45 I session: How to teach controversial issues through Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education
10.15 Developing teachers’ competences in teaching controversial issues – the Baltic cooperation experiences
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 II session: Digital Era: Importance of assessing information from media and social networks
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Parallel Sessions
Session 1: Developing skills to assess information from media and social networks: Teacher competences – What to do next?
Session 2: How to handle controversial issues in the classroom and in the school: role of teachers, civil society, school management and parents.
Session 3: Policy making – national developments in EDC/HRE
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 III session: Conclusions of parallel sessions
16.00 Working in partnership for the advancement of EDC/HRE in the Baltics: future steps
17.15 Closing Remarks
17.30 - 19.00 Reception

The organiser reserves the right to make changes in the schedule and the presenters.