1. Draft Chapter 2 Reporting of National Contexts Survey Results National Coordinators Meeting Madrid, February 2010

2. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Foci 1.Purpose and Development Study’s Contextual framework Design Current progress 2.Draft Chapter 2 Contexts for CCE Draft tables 3.Next Steps Complete and close Stage 2 (end of Feb) Finalise Chapter 2 and tables Outputs

3. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 NCS Overview On-line survey with 8 Sections 1.Education system 2.Education policy and civic and citizenship education 3.Approaches to civic and citizenship education 4.Civic and citizenship education and school curriculum approaches 5.Civic and citizenship education in the school curriculum at the 6.Teachers and civic and citizenship education 7.Civic and citizenship education and assessment and quality assurance 8.Current debates and reforms

4. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Overlapping contexts Context of the wider community: the wider context within which schools and home environments work. Factors may be found at local, regional and national levels

5. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Principles of NCS design and development Timeframe – comprise two stages Format - involve a common structure of closed and open format questions Technology - be filled in and collected on-line Expertise - be completed by NRCs drawing on further sources and expertise as required Language and consistency - be completed in English Supporting data and information - draw upon existing sources of information where they are available and helpful Resources- be manageable for available resource

6. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Current Progress Stage 1 data received from all 38 countries analysed and reviewed ICCS Encyclopaedia to be produced Issues for clarification drawn up for countries (where applicable) Stage 2 update by Sept 09 – to be completed Draft Chapter 2 outline and draft tables produced

7. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Chap 2 – Contexts for CCE Context of the wider community: the wider context within which schools and home environments work. Factors may be found at local, regional and national levels Will report particularly on the national context for year of the study (2008-09)

8. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Chap 2 – Data Sources National context survey (NCS) data on the context of the education system: completed by NRCs Data from other official sources: official statistics providing complementary context data re education system, political system and economic and social context

9. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Chap 2 - Approach NCS data rich resource Composite tables on key data Collapsed data Tables with symbols and definition keys Layout across 2 tables Daggers – issues for clarification Missing data – Stage 2 incomplete

10. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Country Background Info Table 2.1: Demographics Table 2.2: Political system Data to come from other official sources

11. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Country Info on Educational System and CCE Table 2.3: Characteristics of education system - data from NCS Qs 4 and 22 and from other official sources Only data for Lower Secondary and type and number of strands/tracks and same in Table 2.5

12. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Country Info on Educational System and CCE (2) Table 2.4: CCE definitions, priority, policy approaches and reforms - data from NCS Qs 9, 13, 31, 45 Table 2.5: CCE in curriculum, processes and topics – data from NCS Qs 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 Table 2.6: CCE teaching, teacher training, assessment, evaluation - data from NCS Qs 36, 37, 38, 41a, 42a

13. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Country Info on Educational System and CCE (3) Appendix Tables 2.5a b c CCE primary, lower secondary and upper secondary Recommendation not to use - too complex to present and for the reader to understand. Focus on CCE largely in lower secondary

14. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Next Steps - General NCS to be closed end of February Before then: NRCs make any final changes on- line Missing data added and confirmed Issues for clarification addressed NRCs send e-mail to DPC confirming Stage 2 final data is complete

15. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Next Steps - Madrid Countries in 3 categories Countries with no queries – NCS done Countries still to confirm/complete Stage 2 - see me end of session Countries with minor issues for clarification – sign up to see me for short consultation (10 mins max) tomorrow

16. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Countries with No Queries AustriaBulgaria ChileEstonia MexicoNetherlands New ZealandSweden

17. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Countries to Complete/ Confirm Stage 2 Czech RepublicDominican Repub Hong Kong (SAR)Indonesia LuxembourgPoland Slovak RepublicSlovenia Spain

18. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Countries with Minor Issues for Clarification Belgium (Flemish)Chinese Taipei ColombiaCyprusDenmark England FinlandGreeceGuatemala IrelandItalyRepublic of Korea LatviaLiechtensteinLithuania MaltaNorwayParaguay RussiaSwitzerlandThailand

19. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 NCS and Study Outputs International report Chap 2 (2010) Regional reports (2010) ICCS Encyclopaedia (2010) National reports (2010 and beyond) NCS Database (beyond)

20. NRC Meeting Madrid 15-18 February 2010 Questions or comments? THANK YOU