Ukrainian Civic Education Network

UCEN/IREX (Ukrainian Civic Education Network)
Tel: (380) (44) 229-34-79
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://iatp.org.ua/cen/index.html
Contact Name: Tetiana Demkina, Senior Project Analyst 

Intensive discussions on civic education coursework in Ukraine�s educational system have been manifesting yearly.  Teachers, students, and others involved in civic education are beginning to understand that civic education has become a primary subject vis-�-vis the development of a post-Soviet society.  One of the main obstacles in civic education coursework implementation is the lack of access to modern and applicable technical resources, i.e., the Internet, WWW, email, listservs, and chat rooms.  Notwithstanding, teachers using known yet antiquated traditional methods, with the hopes of achieving a successful result, are teaching elements of civic education in today�s Ukrainian scholastic environment.

Main goal of the project: 

1.  Contribute to the development, research, teaching, expansion, and dissemination of existing civic education resources via the IATP-2 technical infrastructure throughout Ukraine.  Technical infrastructures of IATP-2 partners will also be utilized. 

2.  Provide technical resources and access to existing civic education initiatives.  This includes, but is not limited to, access to the Internet, web site hosting, dial-up, emails, chat rooms, and listserv hosting and moderating.

Main target groups:

1.   Primary and Secondary School pupils.

2.   Civic education oriented organizations, which include U.S. Embassy identified partners and programs.

3.   Ukrainian Elementary and Secondary School teachers.

4.   Teacher Training Institutes, Training of Civic Education Trainers, and other I*EARN identified audiences (to be accomplished under the IATP/UCEN Grant to I*EARN).

5.   Youth clubs, youth associations, scouting organizations, and NGOs that are involved in the field of civic education.

6.   Journalists and other members of the Press who are involved in civic education related initiatives.

The UCEN will achieve its goals in the following fashion:

1.   By using the above referenced target groups to create an electronic network for civic education in Ukraine, which will support free informational exchanges, access to the Internet, WWW, web site hosting, dial-up, e-mail, chat rooms, and listserv hosting and moderating.  This electronic network will be utilizing the IATP-2 infrastructure.

2.   Stimulate the development of on-line resources and their placement on the infrastructure mentioned in point #1.  These resources will be in both English and Ukrainian.

3.    Form an electronic database of people actively involved in the field of civic education, which will be made available to all partner organizations.

4.    Commence seminars in Kharkiv, Lviv, Kyiv, and throughout Ukraine together with I*EARN to expose �a-technical� civic educators and students of civic education to the potential behind using modern technical resources for civic education.

5.     Provide cost-free Internet access to civic education partners in exchange for on-line civic education content.

6.     To support Civic Education Resource/Consulting Center via the UCEN Grants Program.

7.   Commence on-line civic education oriented debates on the problems of civic education in Ukraine, with the publishing of these debates on the web site.

8.   **(POTENTIAL)** Sponsorship of civic education conferences on �Civic Education and its potential when incorporated with the Internet� throughout Ukraine.

What the UCEN plans on doing at the beginning:

1.      Create an official UCEN web-site, and publish the following materials within its walls:

• Current civic education resources, which include, but are not limited to:  all known existing Ukrainian civic education on-line resources (or their transformation from the written to electronic form), study materials on civic education, a list of recommended literature, abstracts from civic education reports, texts, manuals, and articles, information pertaining to upcoming conferences, seminars, roundtables, and current events, references concerning new publications on civic education, and materials sent by us by other civic education network members.

• Documents on civic education:  Decrees of the Ukrainian Ministry of Education, important international documents concerning principles and standards of civic education in Ukraine and abroad, Human Rights Declarations, The Constitution of Ukraine, etc.

• Important addresses:  Civic Education resources on the Internet and WWW, addresses of organizations and specialists who work in field of civic education in Ukraine and abroad.  Addresses of youth and children telecommunication projects on civic education, addresses of youth and children organizations, international organizations and their offices abroad and in Ukraine, and Activities connected with youth and children civic education.

• Reference materials regarding civic education, which may refer to certain lessons proposed by the specific groups, and materials provided by schoolchildren (best research works, for instance).

For more information please see their web-site: http://iatp.org.ua/cen/index.html

  Last updated:    April 2001

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