1. Practice/Research in Citizenship Education in Teacher Education Yiouli Papadiamantaki – University of the Peloponnese Henry Maitles – University of West of Scotland Chris Holligan -- University of West of Scotland Sandra Chistolini – University of Rome Bodil Liljefors Persson / Malmo University Anna Liduma – Riga Teacher Training and Education Management Academy, Riga, Latvia

2. EIS February 2016 No Chinese Wall – but we build bridges and open windows

3. Challenges Ideology (both in high schools and TEIs) of education as job creation, rather than a social good; Performativity (in terms of measured results) as the goal for education; The social awareness of teachers who have not experienced citizenship education in practice in the TEIs; The tokenism of participation/democracy/voice and agency within the system; Consequence is a breach of trust; We surmise that it is good to have citizenship in curriculums – but how do we know it is better? Hearts and minds of educators – convincing evidence that it is a benefit

4. Possible Responses? Reaffirming creative thinkers and social good as key aims of education; Human Rights (the inherent rights of being a human being) as key goals of education – understood by parents and educators and hard for anyone to argue against this; tied into a notion of justice – although this is itself problematic; Issues related to pedagogies in terms of ensuring informed engagement or non-engagement; Is research evidence important in citizenship education – or is it self evident?; Redefine quality; Building in opportunities for participative, service learning in the programmes; Ensuring meaningful student voice and agency in education at all levels – as a right; A trawl of research evidence on the benefits to the individual, school and society of citizenship education; CPL for teachers;

5. Aims To explore the 3 areas of Trust, Goals of education and Citizenship and Human Rights through small scale research in our 5 institutions across Europe; Sample: final year or second last year – primary trainees Methods: Focus group (6 students) and questionnaire to whole cohort Investigate research and practice worldwide as to citizenship education impact;

6. Who does what? All are doing interview or focus group/questionnaire Sandra/Anna to draw up questionnaire – by end February Chris/Bodil to draw up guidelines on interview/focus group Youli/Henry to examine research evidence

7. EIS February 2016