Value-based Education Project

Project Title: ADVANCING VALUE-BASED EDUCATION THROUGH TEACHER DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE REFORM IN KOSOVO (#ValuED)

The project aims to facilitate an evidence-based reform in teacher professional development to reflect values-based education and promote inclusive education, equality, non-discrimination, and civic competences in all levels of education, improving the training of teachers and continuous professional development in order to impact the long-term quality of the education system while in parallel strengthening the link between education, research and innovation. The project aims to enhance teachers’ competencies to reflect and advance value-based education (including Education for Democratic Citizenship and Inclusive Education) in their classrooms, in the education curriculum, planning and implementation. The project is of national scope targeting national policies, as well as improving teacher education at the major teacher education institutions. Competences for democratic culture cannot just be taught theoretically; they need to be practiced. Democratic citizenship relies on putting theory into practice: it combines knowledge and understanding with the ability and will to act. These competences must therefore be developed through education practice, as well as through theoretical learning. This is why the project is designed as such to include school-based interventions as well. Education institutions and systems should promote a culture of democracy through whole-school approaches. Through direct school intervention, the project intends to empower school leaders, teachers and other education personnel to transmit shared values and to deal with diversity inside and outside the classroom, support and guide teachers and school leaders with innovative pedagogical approaches and methods and support more democratic learning environments to allow learners to experience democracy and democratic school culture. This includes implementing practices and activities which aim, by equipping learners with knowledge, skills and understanding and molding their attitudes and behavior, to empower them to exercise and defend their democratic rights and responsibilities in society, to value diversity and to play an active part in democratic life, with a view to the promotion and protection of democracy.

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The project is co-funded by the European Union, and implemented by the Faculty of Education UP, in partnership with the University of Prizren (UPz), Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Universitaet Graz (UG), Ludwig- Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU), Kosova Education Center (KEC), and EdGuard Institute (EdG).