The European Union and Education for Democratic Citizenship: Legal foundations for EU learning at school KU Leuven
Education for democratic citizenship equips learners with knowledge, skills and understanding and develops their attitudes and behaviour with the aim of empowering them to exercise and defend their democratic rights and responsibilities in society, to value diversity and to play an active part in democratic life (the consensual definition in the Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education of the Council of Europe, ...