Big discussion!

On friday 29 february we had citizenship and globalisation. In the beginning I found this a very difficult course. I didn´t know what the goal was. But now it is becoming clear to me.

During this course, we had to present how we in our country work on this subject. I had to present it with Charlotte and Manu for Belgiu. I presented it for the primary school (6 - 12 years old). Charlotte and Manu presented it for the lower secondary school (12 - 15 years old).

In Belgium we don´t have a subject called "citizenship and globalisation". It is something hidden. We work on it all the time. Some exemples:

- We have student councils where they can give ideas about school;
- The pupils have to respect some rules. Because in daily life, you also have to handle with this rules. This rules are arranged by the teachers and everybody knows them.
- ...

In primary school we also have a subject "World Education". In that subject we also try to make the pupils aware of their citizenship trough "educations" like peace education.

Then the other countries also had to represent their citizenship in their schools.

After this presentation, we had a discussion. We had a task. We had to explain what were the biggest challenges to handle with at school. For exemple "globalisation of the world". Is this good or not? How can we do something against it?

After this we had a big discussion. It was about the freedom of speech. Were the papers right to publish the cartoons 2 years ago and now again? Or made they fun of the Islam? That was the hot topic. The discussion lasted for an hour, and after it we were really tired!

In the afternoon we had Danish with Leif. We had to make some sentences with the words we already learned.

And after this, it was weekend!