Civil Society

1. Civil Society space to act and way of contact

2. Modern complexity:happiness is dangerous Living in the modern civil society means • Globalisation & individualisation But also • Coping with risks • Moving through networks • Learning to change and changing to learn

3. Modern society is a risk society • “Risk may be defined as a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernization itself” (Beck) • "In contrast to all earlier epochs (including industrial society), the risk society is characterized essentially by a lack: the impossibility of an external attribution of hazards. In other words, risks depend on decisions, they are industrially produced and in this sense politically reflexive‘(Beck) • “Understanding and dealing with risk is essential to a dynamic economy and an innovative society"(Giddens)

4. Modern society is a network society • National, regional and local economies depend ultimately on the dynamics of the global economy to which they are connected through networks and markets (Castels) • The network enterprise: a new form of organisation characteristic of economic activity, but gradually extending its logic to other domains and organisations • Pattern of networking, flexibility and ephemeral symbolic communication in a culture organised around the electronic media (Castels) • Virtual reality: timeless time and space of the flows

5. Civil society • Society of citizens • Citizenship • Rights and duties

6. The complexity of citizenship • Citizenship as status: • the legal contract between State and individual, incl. nationality • Citizenship as social role: • The sense of belonging and inclusiveness, focus on inter-relations

7. STATE Tne small concept of civil society National Governement NGO’s Local authorities Political parties Large enterprises CIVIL SOCIETY MARKET Social partners Social movements Local business life Schools Social life, clubs, selforganisations Churches Informal networks for care, neighbourhood and work COMMUNITY Friends and family

8. The wide concept of civil society State Community Market

9. Traditional civil society Public space where citizens outside their private life take care for community matters Modern civil society Silent duty and even social pressure to agree on social norms and values and to establish free associations to influence reality Between tradition and modernity

10. Citizens: Freedom Voluntas (free will) Voluntairy work life Society: Acceptance Commitment Integration Corner stones of civil society State: regulation to self regulation • Protection • Participation • Empowerment

11. Self identity – who do I am • Binding: social organisations like political parties, social movements or churches making you a socialist, an intellectual, a catholic, etc. • Membership • Bonding: self initiatives, peer groups • Being or feeling recognised and accepted • Bridging: networking based on personal choices • Self esteem and self confidence • Fleeting, temporary and flexible

12. Trends in modern civil society • No state control and protection, but self direction • Financial withdrawal of the state • Local authorities as director and as facilitator • NGO’s as social entrepreneurs • Enterprises focus on corporate social responsability

13. Interactive policy making –ranking participation High Citizens Influence Low 5. Take part in deciding 4. Co-production 3. Advising 2. Consultating 1. Informing High Authority influence Low

14. Output of civil society • Public opinion building in society • Generation of social capital (competence to collaborate)

15. Role of the social sector: iungtare, iuncto, iunctus • The social sector is adjuncting something to the well being of target groups through conjunctingthem and injunctingthem in society (for participation and integration) – but it injunct also itself in a range of result oriented organisations focused on providing social life arrangements

16. Adult education in the civil society • Support of interactive policy making • Support of processes of new strategic alliances • Lifelong learning – managing changes • Competence development and training

17. Citizenship learning • Social learning (in, about and for society) • Based on experience and practice • Democratisation of learning, focus on the learner • Multipe, interconnnected, transversal learning approaches

18. Activecitizenship • Active citizenship is no static attitude or competence • The meaning of active citizenship changes in relation to lifecourse development: it is always embedded in different socio-cultural contexts and in specific individual biographies. • Chances for real participation as precondition

19. DIMENSIONS OF LEARNING FOR ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP CONTEXT DESIRE COMPETENCE + POWER SOLIDARITY

20. Citizenship education • Citizenship education is a method of social inclusion, in the course of which people togehter create the experience of becoming the architects and actors of their own lives. Opportunities to learn and practise autonomy, responsibility, co-operation and creativity enable the development of a sense personal worth and of expertise in confronting and tolerating ambiguities and oppositions • DGXXII Education and active citizenship in the European Union, 1998

21. Open model of guidance • Inclusiveness, open to all people of all ages and reaching out especially to vulnerable and marginalized groups • Intergenerational approach, incuding the family context and childcare provision • Easily accesible phone-in services • Free internet infomation and advice • Accessibility at the workplace • Multidisciplnary partnerships

22. Quality assurance • Porfessional training and certification of guidance practitioners • Employment of stafff with amulti-cultural background • On-going training for all staff • Provision of unbiased infromation on education, training and work opportunities

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24. Civil Society space to act and way of contact