Schools for the Future Europe - Values and Change Beyond Lisbon

Schools for the Future Europe brings together a team of leading academics, policy makers and education professionals to explore the emergence, development and application of European education policy up to the 2009 Lisbon Treaty and beyond. The book charts the historical development of a Europe-wide education policy, and examines how that policy has sought to address such issues as European citizenship, human rights and bilingual schooling. Taking as examples the intended future extension of the European Schools and the European Baccalaureate, and a case study of work towards the first British European Academy or Free School at Culham, UK, the book critically explores the interplay of EU action programmes, policy and rhetoric on secondary education. In the final section, the editors draw on the insights of the previous chapters to outline an achievable programme for the future development of education policy structures and practice in schools for Europe.

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Reviews:

"A thorough and detailed review of European educational initiatives together with interesting insights from a variety of contributors about how such initiatives could be developed and given new directions for the future. The emphasis on the economic and cultural benefits - both for individuals and for countries - of learning foreign languages is particularly welcome." Rt. Hon. Baroness Joyce Quin, former Minister for Europe

Introduction - John Sayer and Lynn Erler Part I 1. Putting Europe into Education - Frank Furedi 2. Post-War Perspectives: What Europe Meant for Education Then, What it Means for us Now - John Sayer 3. Europe, Human Rights and Education - Hugh Starkey 4. School Links Across National Cultures: a Personal Experience of Europe in the School Curriculum - Paddy Carpenter Part II 5. Raising Awareness of Europe in Classroom and Community: A Scottish Initiative - Barbara Macleod 6. Pedagogy, Citizenship and the EU: Practitioners' Perspectives on the Teaching of European Citizenship through Modern Foreign Languages - Mairin Hennebry 7. Foreign Language Assistants in Schools: Making Sure of the Future - Martha Wörsching 8. Models of Bilingual Schooling - Lynn Erler with Jackie Holderness, Marc Wolstencroft, Judith Woodfield and Gabriela Meier 9. Teacher Education and Development for Bilingual Education - Shirley Lawes Part III 10. The European Schools and Enlargement - Renée Christmann 11. The Future for the European Baccalaureate: Recognition and Reform - John Sayer 12. Learning from Culham as a Case Study - John Sayer Conclusion: The Next Ten Years - Lynn Erler and John Sayer Annex: Major European Events and Developments Affecting Schools 1949-2011