Thin participating culture in school and passivate learning culture has been characteristic for Finnish schools, but also for many other European schools (see e.g. ICCS-studies) decades. Nevertheless democratic culture and its values are the strongest basis for both structures and everyday life in EU. However, schools has changed very slowly towards more active culture even if there has been lot of different project in local, national and European level.
 
This project stresses new learning environments and technology-based tools in the learning processes and especially in the life of school community. Where developing the active citizenship in school has been based the forms of representativeness, technology gives possibilities to develop from bottom to up activities of democracy in school. Different kind of “on line” applications (voting systems, open discussion, open decision-making processes, voice for pupil) could be reality in schools from technological viewpoints.
 
Technology also makes possible students’ ownership towards their own learning when they have more influence in their own learning process, like discussing with other students and teachers of the contents and methods of learning. Technology makes possible the voice of students in the school, if teachers and head teachers are willing for it. It also makes possible not only participate for the school’s culture, but also for the developing of their own neighborhood (democracy as a way of life).
 
In this project new ICT tools will be developed for the use of education for democracy (primary and secondary schools). These tools will be also tested in school(s).


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