Marina Sergeeva Evaldovna

What I myself can do is: 1. Analyse how Citizenship is taught in Russian schools. 2. How it's taught at the teachers training University with English integrating 3. How it's taught through extracurricular activity (not as an obligotary subject) perhaps, it's not too much, but I really can do it.

The agenda sounds clear and logical. in my opinion, any project should be aimed at solving a defibite problem, as a consequence, we should have a good rationale for the project title. I mean, if the participants at first analyse how Citizenship is taught in their countries and highlight the problems connected with it, compare them the others' results and make up a list of common problems in teaching Citizenship In Europe and outside. I think, it would be a good argument for EU. That might be the first step (brief analysis). And all the other steps, suggested by John, are the ways of problems solving.

Very good! These demensions can be a kind of a skeletone for the beginning

I can hardly add something to your suggestions. The one thing that is quite important and Juan Carlos has mentioned it is that in some countries (in Russia as well) there isn't a separate subject "Civics" and designing a course on it would be necessary. Perhaps, we could also design a textbook on the subject (but here again the problem of the language arises, whether it's in native language or English as Lingua Franca) or a kind of Tips for Teachers of Civics with suggested curriculum and a set of materials. On the whole, everithing is quite clear, I mean what to be into for three years. I've started collecting information of how Civics is taught in Russia.

Let me also explain what an English teacher is doing here. Teaching the Language, we give the knowledge of a foreign culture, traditions, try to persuade the students to respect it and, sometimes, completely forget about the culture and other important things concerning our own country. First of all we should come up to the defenition of what citizenship is since it's a very complicated notion. If citizenship is "the ways in which a good citizen behaves, for example, being responsible and helping their community" (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English), we should make up a list of compulsory topics which make up the whole course. One of them is Voting right and obligation of a good citizen as John has stated, another one might be "How to react on injustice or lawlessness". I think, it's rather important for a good citizen, 'cos i often see how adults go by such things,being indignant but doing nothing to change the situation. One more topic I consider quite vital is "Country's achievments" because I come across such students who are crazy about abroad, considering their own country to be unbearable to live in. We as educators, should select the material in such a way to convince the students to be proud of the country they live in. I might be wrong, if so, let me know. Probably, i'm in the wrong direction . All the ideas stated above appeal to me greatly. But what I consider to be necessary is to make an outline of the course to start collecting material. Marina

September is OK for me. Choose any date suitable for other members of the project.

I teach English, Language History and Language Typology at the Biysk Pedagogical University. Fulbright Scholar in the cours "Summer Courses on American Studies" (USA, 2004), participated in European Seminar "Migration Flows in the 21st century" (Germany, 2005). I have a PhD in Linguistics. At present I'm the Head of the English Chair and a Consultant of teachers of foreign languages at the Humanitarian Gymnasium. I consider it extremely important not only to teach the language itself but with its help to bring up coscious, able to analyse generation of young teachers.

I have a PhD in Linguistics (Kemerovsky State University). I teach at the Biysk Pedagogical University, International Relations Department. I am Associate Professor of English at Biysk.