About Discovering Democracy

Discovering Democracy is an intersystemic Commonwealth-funded civics and citizenship education project with links across the curriculum including: SOSE, History, Business Studies, English and Technology.

The Project Background (new window) gives an overview of the project since 1998 while the Project Materials (new window) offers a comprehensive look at all the materials that have been provided free of charge to all schools throughout Australia.

• Discovering Democracy Queensland
• Partnerships at the Local Level
• Who guides the Queensland project?
• Acknowledgments

Discovering Democracy Queensland

In line with their responsibilities, each State and Territory has received funding from the Commonwealth-funded Discovering Democracy program to support teacher professional development and project activities in schools across all sectors of primary and secondary schooling within their State or Territory.

In November 2000, Queensland received funding to develop an intersystemic project entitled Discovering Democracy: Partnerships at the Local Level. The project is a joint initiative of Education Queensland, the Catholic Education Commission and the Association of Independent Schools of Queensland Inc. and will run until June 2004.

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Partnerships at the Local Level

Discovering Democracy Queensland aims to:

• enhance civics and citizenship education in Queensland schools
• provide a range of professional development activities for teachers at the local, district and state level
• establish networks of localised learning communities to sustain teachers' knowledge and expertise in civics and citizenship education
• develop partnerships between schools and local communities
• support the development of school-based and cluster-based civics and citizenship projects in Queensland schools.

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Who guides the Queensland project?

A Coordinating Committee has been formed to oversee the project in Queensland. The Committee consists of:

Ms Leonie Shaw
Strategic Human Resources, Education Queensland (Chair)

Ms Judy Gardiner
Queensland Catholic Education Commission

Ms Jenene Rosser
The Association of Independent Schools Queensland Inc

Ms Marcia Rouen
Education Queensland

Ms Sandra Kenman
Australian Federation of Societies for Studies of Society and Environment (AFSSSE)

Mr Peter Bond
Academic Consortium

Ms Rosalie Shawcross
Senior Project Officer, Discovering Democracy, Queensland

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Acknowledgments

This project was supported by funding from the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (new window) under the Discovering Democracy program.

The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs.