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The Competence Network of Early Years Education for Democracy (Kompetenznetzwerk Demokratiebildung im Kindesalter) is a joint undertaking of the Institute for the Situational Approach (Institut für den Situationsansatz – ISTA) and the German Children’s Fund (Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk). It has been active since the beginning of 2020 and has secured funding from the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth until the end of 2024 as part of the national ‘Live Democracy!’ initiative (Demokratie leben!).
The Institute for the Situational Approach focuses on education in the early years and is an offshoot of the International Academy Berlin (INA gGmbH). It was founded in 1996 to further develop and disseminate the situational approach in theory and practice. The Department for Children’s Worlds (Fachstelle Kinderwelten) concerns itself with one particular area of research within the Institute for the Situational Approach: since 2011, it has been developing and fostering prejudice-aware education (Vorurteilsbewusste Bildung und Erziehung©) in pre-school centres and primary schools. This represents an extension of the situational approach to include diversity awareness, adultism critique and anti-discrimination.
The German Children’s Fund has been working to support children’s interests in Germany for around 50 years. Children’s rights – incorporated into German law in 1992 – underpin the work of this charity organisation which seeks to promulgate and enforce children’s rights in society and in politics. The Department of Children’s Rights Education (Fachstelle Kinderrechtebildung) of the German Children’s Fund is primarily concerned with the development and realisation of strategies, policy and initiatives in the field of children’s rights-based education for democracy.
The aim of our network is to promote holistic education for democracy in pre-school centres as well as in all-day primary schools and after-school activities. Our approach includes the implementation of children’s rights education, inclusion, anti-discrimination and social participation. It is a matter of great importance to us that everyone involved in educating children for democracy is included here – the children themselves, their families, the teaching and educational staff, facility managers and funding agencies. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child serves as a common, binding frame of reference for our work.
We aim to achieve four major objectives in our work:
In order to be able to achieve these goals, we have adopted a number of measures.
These include:
For more information on the Early Years Education for Democracy Competence Network and the ‘Live Democracy!’ initiative of the German federal government, please visit the page “About us”.