Draft Chapter 2Reporting of National Contexts

Survey Results

National Coordinators Meeting

Madrid, February 2010

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Foci1. 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

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NCS Overview

On-line survey with 8 Sections1. Education system2. Education policy and civic and citizenship

education3. Approaches to civic and citizenship education4. Civic and citizenship education and school

curriculum approaches5. Civic and citizenship education in the school

curriculum at the <target grade> 6. Teachers and civic and citizenship education7. Civic and citizenship education and assessment

and quality assurance8. Current debates and reforms

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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Country Background Info

• Table 2.1: Demographics

• Table 2.2: Political system

Data to come from other official sources

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Countries with No Queries

Austria Bulgaria

Chile Estonia

Mexico Netherlands

New Zealand Sweden

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Countries to Complete/ Confirm Stage 2

Czech Republic Dominican Repub

Hong Kong (SAR) Indonesia

Luxembourg Poland

Slovak Republic Slovenia

Spain

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Countries with Minor Issues for Clarification

Belgium (Flemish) Chinese Taipei

Colombia Cyprus Denmark England

Finland Greece Guatemala

Ireland Italy Republic of Korea

Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania

Malta Norway Paraguay

Russia Switzerland Thailand

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NCS and Study Outputs

• International report Chap 2 (2010)

• Regional reports (2010)

• ICCS Encyclopaedia (2010)

• National reports (2010 and beyond)

• NCS Database (beyond)

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Questions or comments?

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