CITI-VAL Analysis of collected data

CITI-VAL PROJECT / ERASMUS+ 2016-1-FR01-KA204- 023961 / MARTA FEKETE – JUDIT HEGEDUS (HUNGARY) 1 CITI-VAL CITIZENSHIP VALUES Project ANALYSIS OF COLLECTED DATA (ON PRISON COURSES AND METHODOLOGIES) As presented in CITI-VAL Conference held in Budapest, Hungary on 2 nd May, 2017 INTRODUCTION of the project CITI-VAL stands for citizenship values and this is a project that has been launched in order to build self- awareness and self-esteem among inmates. In order to do this a team of international professionals will create a collection of courses – 62-hr-long – that addresses not only citizenship values but the improvement of the above-mentioned ideas and competences with an interdisciplinary approach that is inspired by the science of history, philosophy, geography, modern pedagogy and so on. The partners come from five different countries (France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, and Turkey). All the partners have previous experience in European projects and the professionals’ different knowledge and expertise provide the validity of CITI- VAL’s outcome. Their various profiles (University, Prison, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Education) are the key of compiling a useful material within the frame of the project. The partners’ responsibilities within the project are the following: 1. compilation and circulation of a questionnaire (for pre-research); 2. evaluation of the questionnaires based on which the formulation of the pedagogical sequence can start. Another responsibility is to conceptualize those 21 cross-curricular competences around which the sequences will be built and on which they will be based. The values and competences should be the ones that have to be possessed by an inmate in order to become a valuable member of the society. This project wishes to address also juvenile inmates, who are, in many cases, the most vulnerable people, the ones in prison, who are often the most at risk. All in all, the project wishes to address citizenship education with the help of the means of formal, informal and non-formal education. The previously compiled questionnaire was meant to focus on how citizenship value education is realized in the prisons of the partner countries. Based on the findings the international team in the following 2 years will be able to work out a methodology. The content of this article will be as follows: - project and partners - priorities: intellectual output on citizenship education in prison - introduction of the principles based on which the questionnaire was built up - overview on the results – evaluation of the questionnaires and the methodologies collected - draw a conclusion, give reflections on what the next steps should be of the international team.