Reimagining and Reinventing Democracy through Digital Storytelling - Global Citizenship Education in the 'RIGHTS' Project

摘要

This paper presents the objectives and first results of the RIGHTS project (pRomotIng Global citizensHip education Through digital Storytelling). The main aim of the RIGHTS project is to promote the Education for Global Citizenship (EGC) by enhancing interactive teaching in secondary schools in Europe through the use of Digital Storytelling (DS). Based on a research made by the partners, the project has developed an e-learning course for teachers in EGC. The main focus of the project and the course is to promote the teachers and students ability to reimagine and reinvent democracy through the implementation of an innovative didactic methodology by using digital storytelling as the main method in a global citizenship education. The RIGHTS project is funded with support of the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme - Sub-programme Comenius. Eight partners (schools, non-profit organisations, universities, cultural organisations) are involved in this project and they come from 7 different European countries Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Switzerland and Norway. The Italian university "Guglielmo Marconi" is the leading partner of the project. The paper describes the educational, pedagogical, cultural and motivational benefits deriving from the applied methodology. The basic idea of the project is that allowing the students to have a voice and to actively participate in democracy both in school and in society, is a powerful way to support their development to become active citizens.