Macedonian tim: Migulovska Andrijana Dimitrovski Robert, Laste Spasovski

Throught Comitment to school Democracy – model of student participation

Pestalozzi workshopEDUCATION for DEMOCRACY and REGIONAL COOPERATION:

Turning Challenges into OpportunitiesLjubljana, SLOVENIA, 27–29 June 2013

• States in education in the past globalization period

•Problems that have a same denominator almost everywhere – lack of real democracy

•What do we want to achieve?A higher level of education for democracy• How do we achieve it?Developing a model of student participation in school democracy

Who does that?All stakeholders + most direct subject for whom the edcation

exsist – the student

Promotes equality, respect

and acceptance of differences

Why we need a model?

Encourages cooperation and

common participation

Developes social skills and critical thinking

Creates a sence of responsibility and

sensitivity towards their own and other’s needs

VisionImplementing the model on state level

MissionAchieving a higher

level of democratization in the

work of the school

Goals

1. Democratization of teaching proces and extracurricular activities

2. Сreating climate of nonviolent school

3. Facing prejudices and stereotypes

4. Promoting multhiethnic values as a foundation for integration

Activity suggestions in school

goal 1. Democratization of teaching process- appropriately informed students- opportunities for expressing student’s views- involvment/ Participation in making decisions

goal 2. Creating climate of nonviolent school - making a team of teachers and students- promoting the activities through a website- experience exchange with partner school

Example activities in primary school St Kliment Ohridski - Bitola

www.nenasilnouciliste.weebly.com

Activity suggestions in school

goal 3. facing prejudices and stereotipes- Changes in teacher’s behavior- Changes in student’s behavior- Changes in the teaching materials

goal. 4- Cooperation with partner schools (monolingual schools)- Multicultural structure and functioning (multilingual schools)

Idea suggestions for activities with teams from other countries