September 2011

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Education for Social Cohesion

In 2009 the Centre launched a project aimed at piloting the impact of adopting a whole school approach to social cohesion and citizenship education on young people’s political and civic attitudes.  In Lebanon, the current and most predominant approach to citizenship education relies on teaching civics one hour per week.  However, research showed that this…

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CLS education for social cohesion project announcement

Project Overview A Whole School Approach to Active Citizenship Education and Social Cohesion The project aims to support schools in promoting active citizenship, and social cohesion through a sustainable and holistic educational programme that emphasizes critical pedagogies, democratic practices at school, and strong school/community relationships. This educational programme is proposed as an alternative to the…

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