Education, Citizenship and Youth
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Citizenship Education
Welcome!
Manitoba Grants for Innovation in Citizenship Education 2008 
Successful Applicants for 2007
Sample of innovative classroom and school projects undertaken in various Manitoba schools in 2006-2007.
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.
Youth Citizenship Conference, October 2006
On October 24, 2006, MB4Youth hosted a one-day Youth Citizenship Conference for Manitoba Youth in Beausejour, Manitoba. Approximately one hundred youth and twenty educators from across Manitoba participated and heard several presenters (most of them youth) speaking on what is happening in schools right now to promote the "Valuing of our Diversity." This report summarizes the presentations of these groups as well as comments from keynote speaker Nalini Reddy.
2006 Youth Citizenship Conference, Final Report (
175 KB)
Citizenship Education Seminar 2008
In February 2008, MB4Youth, in collaboration with School Programs Division and Bureau de l’éducation française, hosted a two-day Citizenship Education Seminar for Social Studies educators. Twenty-four educators from across Manitoba participated and heard more than twenty presenters (many of them youth) speak on defining citizenship education, addressing the challenges of engaging youth, and existing programs in Manitoba schools that address citizenship education in unique ways.
An analysis of the seminar has been compiled and a final report prepared.
Citizenship Education Seminar 2008, Final Report ( 61 KB)
Teachers - Share your Innovations
Do you wish to share your innovations in Citizenship Education? What are you doing to involve your students in their community, their province, their country or the world? If you have a project idea to share with other Manitoba Educators, please email a project summary to hugh.sigurdson@gov.mb.ca.
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