Implementing and Evaluating the ‘space' of Participatory Radio as an Educational Intervention for Inclusion, Self-efficacy and Informal Learning

RadioActive101 is an international internet radio hub that is an educational intervention which gives a voice to disenfranchised groups throughout Europe (funded by the Nominet Trust in the UK and EU Lifelong Learning Programme). Through using radio to give a voice to these groups, such as at-risk and unemployed young people, schoolchildren in low-income areas and older people who have various challenges, RadioActive stimulates and facilitates inclusion, greater self-efficacy and informal learning of citizens who would otherwise be ‘left behind'

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Romania: Continuity and innovation in the civics and social education curriculum

Purpose: The paper maps recent developments in civics and social education in primary and lower secondary Romanian education systems, pointing to significant curriculum changes, within the broader competence-based curriculum reform. The analysis aims also to formulate policy recommendations, based on identified challenges. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology uses documentary analysis of curriculum and thematic studies, relevant for the policy reforms and practice conceptualisations in civics/social education. Research limitations/implications: The main findings document the important step forward in promoting civics competencies in Romanian primary education, and social competencies in the lower secondary curriculum. Various challenges affecting the effective implementation of these changes are identified, both at system and school-level. Practical implications: Focus on formal written and taught curriculum. As curriculum reform in upper secondary education is ongoing, the analysis is limited to primary and lower secondary education.