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Manual for students
Student handout 6.1: The policy cycle model: politics as a process of solving problems in a community
Manual for students
Student handout 6.1: The policy cycle model: politics as a process of solving problems in a community
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Interactive constructivist learning in EDC/HRE
- Part 1: Taking part in the community
- UNIT 1: IDENTITY
- Lesson 1: Views on choices and identity
- Lesson 2: Looking back: what choices made me the person I am?
- Lesson 3: Looking forward: three choices that shape our future lives
- Lesson 4: Which job suits me?
- Materials for teachers 1.1: Quotes on choices and identity
- Materials for teachers 1.2: Job cards
- Unit 1.3: Background information for teachers
- UNIT 2: RESPONSIBILITY
- Lesson 1: Risk losing a friend – or break a rule?
- Lessons 2 and 3: What would you do?
- Lesson 4: What values must we share?
- Materials for teachers 2.1: How to use the tool for dilemma analysis
- Materials for teachers 2.2: Flipchart layout for the comparison of dilemma solutions (lesson 4)
- Materials for teachers 2.3: Liberty and responsibility – three lecture modules
- UNIT 3: DIVERSITY AND PLURALISM
- Lesson 1: If I were president …
- Lesson 2: What goals do we want to promote?
- Lesson 3: What is the common good?
- Lesson 4: Taking part in pluralist democracy
- Materials for teachers 3A: Four basic political standpoints
- Materials for teachers 3B: Lecture: what is the common good?
- Materials for teachers 3C: Suggestions for extensions and follow-ups
- UNIT 1: IDENTITY
- Part 2 – Taking part in politics: settling conflict, solving problems
- UNIT 4: CONFLICT
- Lesson 1: The fishing game (1)
- Lesson 2: The fishing game (2)
- Lesson 3: How do we catch “as many fish as possible”?
- Lesson 4: How can we achieve sustainability?
- Materials for teachers 4.1: Fishing game: record sheet for players
- Materials for teachers (game managers) 4.2: Reproduction chart: recovery of the fish population (in tons of fish)
- Materials for teachers 4.3: Fishing game: record chart
- Materials for teachers 4.4: Fishing game: diagram of fish Stocks and total catches
- Materials for teachers 4.5: Homework Instructions (mini-handout for students)
- Unit 4.5: Background information for teachers: Reading list on the fishing game
- Unit 5: RULES AND LAW
- Unit 6: Government and politics
- Lesson 1: “Our most urgent problem is …”
- Lesson 2: Politics – how a democratic community solves its problems
- Lesson 3: Applying the policy cycle model
- Lesson 4: How can we take part?
- Lesson 5: Feedback session (optional)
- Materials for teachers 6.1: Illustration of the policy cycle model – how can we reduce the number of car accidents?
- Materials for teachers 6.2: Key statements on the policy cycle model
- UNIT 7: EQUALITY
- UNIT 4: CONFLICT
- Part 3 – Taking part in politics: participation through communication
- Manual for students
- Student handout 1.1: What choices have made me the person I am today – and who made them?
- Student handout 1.2: Three options that shape our futures
- Student handout 1.3: My criteria for choosing a job
- Student handout 1.4: Questionnaire: job shadowing
- Student handout 2.1: The dilemma concept
- Student handout 2.2: A tool to analyse and solve dilemmas
- Student handout 2.3: How would you decide? Dilemma case stories
- Student handout 2.4: Record sheet on dilemma discussions (Based on student handout 2.3)
- Student handout 2.5: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December 1948)
- Student handout 2.6: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (The European Convention on Human Rights), as amended by Protocol No. 11 with Protocol Nos. 1, 4, 6 (excerpts)
- Student handout 3.1: Schedule for unit 3 “Diversity and pluralism”
- Student handout 3.2: Taking part in democracy – basic rules and principles
- Student handout 3.3: Establishing a political party
- Student handout 3.4: How does a democratic political system handle diversity and pluralism?
- Student handout 3.5: The concept of the common good: the hallmark of democracy and dictatorship
- Student handout 3.6: Map of social cleavages and political parties
- Student handout 4.1: Case story: the conflict in the fishing community
- Student handout 4.2: A model of sustainability goals
- Student handout 4.3: Applying the sustainability model to the fishing game: how do we “catch as many fish as possible”?
- Student handout 4.4: What is the optimum balance between fish reproduction and harvest?
- Student handout 5.1: Preparations for the conference on a framework of rules
- Student handout 5.2: Basic questions to consider in institutional design
- Student handout 5.3: Comparing frameworks of rules
- Student handout 5.4: Procedural rules for the conference – draft version
- Student handout 5.5: Summary: what can we learn through these games?
- Student handout 5.6: Feedback on units 4 and 5
- Student handout 6.1: The policy cycle model: politics as a process of solving problems in a community
- Student handout 6.2: The policy cycle – a tool to observe and understand political decision-making processes
- Student handout 6.3: Feedback on the unit “Government and politics”
- Student handout 7.1: Is majority rule unfair to the minority? A case story
- Student handout 7.2: How do democracies care for the protection of minorities?
- Student handout 7.3: Task: drafting a statute for the sports club
- Student handout 7.4: Record of group presentations: draft statutes for a micro-community
- Student handout 8.1: Suggestions for a debating issue
- Student handout 8.2: Rules for debating
- Student handout 8.3: Planning sheet for the debating teams
- Student handout 8.4: Planning sheet for the chairpersons
- Student handout 8.5: Record sheet for the audience
- Student handout 8.6: Worksheet for news story writers
- Student handout 9.1: Creating a wall newspaper – making choices
- Student handout 9.2: Tips for producing a wall newspaper
- Student handout 9.3: Tips for writing a good news story
