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Manitoba Grants for Innovation in Citizenship Education 2008
The Grants | Projects | Eligibility | Selection Criteria | Applications | Contact
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Application Form ( 35 KB )
Are you an educator with an innovative idea for teaching citizenship education?
One of the goals of education is to prepare individuals to participate as active and responsible citizens in a democracy. Citizenship education helps students to acquire the knowledge, values and skills to actively participate as citizens in their schools and communities. In addition, research shows that when students are engaged in citizenship activities as youth, they are more likely to continue to be active citizens as adults.
The Grants
Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth (MECY) wishes to acknowledge innovative classroom or school projects. The grants provide funding up to $1,000 to cover project costs that are not normally the responsibility of school divisions.
The Grants are intended to:
- engage students in opportunities to explore and practice active democratic citizenship through hands-on activities or projects
- encourage schools to develop innovative projects that build citizenship
- support and contribute to best practices in citizenship education
Projects
Projects should engage students throughout all phases of the process including planning and implementation. School initiatives may relate to one or more of the following:
- civic responsibility
- social justice
- local, regional, national or global concerns
- human rights, equity and diversity
- youth voice in community decision-making or governance
- intercultural dialogue and understanding diverse perspectives
- environmental stewardship
- the democratic process
Projects should have the potential to have an ongoing impact on a community. Projects should reflect Manitoba learning outcomes related to citizenship, such as the citizenship skills identified in the social studies curriculum.
Students will:
- understand how the democratic process works in Canada at the local, provincial and national levels
- collaborate with others to establish and carry out group goals and responsibilities
- make decisions that reflect fairness and equality in their interactions with others
- negotiate constructively with others to build consensus and solve problems
- evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of solutions to a problem
- evaluate personal assumptions based on new information and ideas
- inspire and clarify questions and ideas in discussions
- articulate their beliefs and perspectives on issues
Eligibility
All English, French, and French Immersion programs in Manitoba public and funded independent schools are eligible to apply. Applications from early, middle and senior years are encouraged and each area will receive a minimum of two grants. Projects which received grants in the 2007-2008 school year are not eligible to receive a grant for 2008-2009.
Twenty (20) projects will be selected; each project may receive up to $1,000 to support implementation of the project. The projects must be completed, and a final report submitted, by June 26, 2009. Projects that have been funded in previous years will be considered only if they include new initiatives.
Selection Criteria
The project:
- must provide an opportunity for student voice
- must reflect democracy in the classroom, involving students in collaborative goalsetting and planning
- must involve experiential or hands-on learning
- should have a social action component that involves students in discussion, interaction or problem solving with the larger community
- may have a local, national or global focus
- must identify innovative ways of sharing results with educational communities
Applications
Application Form (
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Deadline for applications is October 24, 2008, at 4:00 p.m. A Selection Committee including educators, department staff, and youth will review applications and successful applicants will be informed by December 8, 2008.
Manitoba Grants for Innovation in Citizenship Education
Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth,
MB4Youth Division
310-800 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3G 0N4
Fax: (204) 945-5726
Email: nancy.buchanan@gov.mb.ca
Successful applicants for 2007
View brief descriptions of successful projects from:
Contact
For further information, please contact Nancy Buchanan at (204) 945-0884.
