Teaching Democracy
The workshop will explore the ideas of political action, radicalism, extremism, terrorism and revolution in the context of current geo-political global situations. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, this workshop will include presentations which will explain the political situations around the world, and the way in which these reverberate in Australia. This workshop will further interrogate the concepts of democracy and multiculturalism and ask whether societies such as ours, with its commitment to both, can avoid the development of destructive political action.
The two-day workshop will include discussion by the participants to develop strategies for involving young people in positive political engagement in the classroom and in the community.
Workshop themes:
- Political extremism around the world
- The Arab spring
- The London riots
- The European right
- Young people and political engagement
- Political engagement in a Democracy
- Multiculturalism
- Indigenous political engagement in Australia
This workshop is being run in conjunction with the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia and has been funded by the Australian Government acting through the Attorney-General's Department under its Building Community Resilience Grants Program.
A contribution to this workshop has also been made by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of News South Wales, Canberra.
The views expressed in this workshop are those of the individual presenters and do not necessarily represent the views of the Freilich Foundation, FECCA, UNSW Canberra, nor the Attorney General's Department. .
