Didactical path on topic “Freedom of thought, expression and information”

 

Civics

 

Theme

Content

Freedom in the modern democratic society
  • The theme helps students to become familiar with some basic values of the European democratic society – striving for freedom, justice, tolerance and setting of social order.

 

To achieve the goal we reduce it and make it more specific by using the following tasks in our work with the students:

  • Students have to acquire basic knowledge on :
    1. how the state itself  works
    2. the variety of the social relations
    3. the relations between the members of the state and the society
    4. to be able to solve different problems according to certain social values
    5. clear understanding of the democratic values
    6. to have proper civic behavior
    7. to acquire skills to use their rights and obligations
  • Basic values – they are common in all modern democracies:
    1. Freedom and human rights ( universality, inseparability and irrevocability of human rights , international standards for human rights, international laws for human rights , a right of heritage, institutions and procedures defending human rights);
    2. Human rights and basis of democracy – the students is given the opportunity to acquire some problems connected with human rights, to discuss the fundamental international law documents and also the Bulgarian ones, to study the different kinds of rights – political , social , economical and cultural.
    3. Current problems of Bulgarian society – studying of some key – problems of Bulgarian social development during the transitional period. The problems are economical, social. generation gap and the position of Bulgaria in Southeastern Europe and in modern Europe.
    4. The global problems of the modern world – students are supposed to understand more detailed that there are a lot of problems in our modern world such as: some ecological problems, problems of the war, problems of inequality of the resources, terrorism and also the religious and ethnical diversity.
    5. Using a interactive method – the so called” World Café “-  where  students can freely discuss and practise the acquired knowledge.

Key points

….” the position of being  “ a citizen “  in our democratic republic “ Thomas Jefferson

The civil ideal set up by European Commission Delor – “ to learn how to live together , to learn to get to know , to learn to act and to learn to be “.

The study of professor P.Balkanski about the free personal development of each student , based on the ideas of the humanism and democracy.

 

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