City and Diversity – Challenges for Citizenship Education
24 – 26 June 2010
Barcelona, Spain
The future of society will be decided in cities. It is there where economic, social and cultural developments are concentrated and condensated. Cities appear as “catalysts” of deep-reaching negotiation processes between tradition and innovation, between break and continuity.
Individuals and groups from different milieus, origins, ethnicities encounter each other. They encounter the different, the foreign, different lifestyles, ways of behaviour and ideologies. Fears and hopes, opportunities and risks: Urbanity in the 21st century is closely linked to identity processes and challenges for citizenship education.
Social justice is the core of urban politics. In the cities, basic needs such as belonging, home, possibilities to participate and develop become questions of vital significance – not at last for cities themselves. These social challenges are not the only urban-political tasks to be solved.
Actors in cities are confronted with a wickerwork of effects which is entirely new in its complexity.
- economy-affecting globalisation effects
- demographic shifts
- migration
- trends towards segregation
- development of retail trade
- new expectations to the city as a space of living, working, leisure time.
How could citizenship education at the European level appropriately react to this and also initiate new models of participation? This is supposed to be the topic of the workshop. The participative concept of the workshop is reflected in the intense discussions with all invited experts that follow the short introductions of each topic by one or two inputs.
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