Healthy Conflict and Constructive Dialogue Classroom (Online)

EventsTHE CIVICS Innovation Hub and NECE campus: Healthy Conflict and Constructive Dialogue Classroom . Speaker: Maja Nenadovic, online, 26 September 2023 from 5:00 am to 6:30 am ADT.

During this workshop, the Educators’ Guide to Depolarisation will be presented, as well as navigating through some of its exercises, designed to encourage and equip teachers with methods for facilitating difficult conversations on controversial or polarising topics with their students. In addition, educational materials from the project Depolarisation Activism for Resilient Europe (DARE) will also be presented.

Maja Nenadovic is a practitioner and educator with 20 years of experience of working in the civic education, critical pedagogy, human rights education, Holocaust education and youth civic engagement fields. Next to designing original civic education and human rights education materials, she coordinated and facilitated several long-term civic education projects in the region of Western Balkans.

The NECE (Networking European Civic Education) Campus is an all-year-round online event series that provides a platform for educators, policymakers, civil society actors, and experts in citizenship education to learn, and exchange practices, research, tools, and methods related to democratic engagement and civic education. The series includes a diverse set of presentations, workshops, and capacity-building activities. It’s organised into functional and thematic tracks to cater to the needs of civic educators, covering a broad range of topics.

THE CIVICS is a a pan-European NGO with hubs in Bonn, Sofia and Zagreb with the goal of strengthening the democratic competences, self-efficacy, and resilience of citizens across Europe.