D@dalos: International UNESCO Education Server for Civic, Peace and Human Rights Education

http://www.dadalos.org/

About D@dalos

D@dalos is a Sarajevo-based Bosnian non-governmental organization (NGO). Its programs are operated in close partnership with the German NGO Pharos Stuttgart. Its activities are carried out in co-operation with partners in all countries and regions of South Eastern Europe.

As one major part of its activities, D@dalos has been running the Education Server Program (since 1999), which provides school teachers in South Eastern Europe with a vast information resource in all the teachers' mother tongues (and in English) on education for democracy, human rights and citizenship for use in civic education classes and the teaching of social subjects.

Description of Contents

The width of the contents offered by D@dalos is simply overwhelming; it can be divided into two major sections. SUBJECTS with information and teaching material on

• Human Rights: What are human rights? How did they develop?  How can they help me? etc.

• Examples: Information on important human examples past and present like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and many more.

• Democracy: What does it mean? How did it develop? What shape and forms does democracy take? etc.

• Political Parties: What is a party? What type of parties exist? What functions do parties perform? etc.

• European Union: What is the European Union? History of European integration; institutions in the EU multi-level system; challenges: enlargement and reform; etc.

• United Nations: What are the tasks and aims of the United Nations? How did the United Nations develop? How is the United Nations structured? etc.

• Globalisation: What is globalisation? What are dimensions and causes of globalisation? Resulting problems and solution strategies; etc. and

• Sustainability: What does sustainability mean? How do I act sustainably? How does a Local Agenda 21 function? etc.

METHODS, comprising at present two subsections:

• Teaching Politics: What are tasks and objectives of political education? How to plan and prepare lessons? How to choose a teaching perspective? etc. and

• Peace Education: What is peace education? What is meant by peace? How to deal with conflict in a constructive way? etc.

The contents of each of the 10 main subject groups on the screenshot above - if printed out - would comprise some 200 pages on average and is arranged in a similar way thus extraordinarily facilitating orientation, nagivation and working with the material provided.

On balance, the D@dalos International UNESCO Education Server from my point of view has to be esteemed as one of the most outstanding Internet sources on EDC. A source with a clear focus on providing material, ideas, concepts and methods for teachers of EDC and politics in general.