Norway

Teacher Trainings

Our teacher trainings aims to strengthen the competences of teachers and educators to facilitate democracy learning activities with young people.

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Teachers from seven countries

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Teachers trained

EWC offers trainings on how to teach about 22 July and related topics in the classroom or other educational settings. The aim is to help teachers and other educators to recognize the value of engaging young people in democratic dialogue about controversial issues, to strengthen the confidence and competences to make democratic dialogue about controversial issues a part of their everyday practice in schools and other educational settings.

How to teach about 22 July when you are directly affected?

For many, the terrorist attacks 22 July 2011 is just a dark day in history. For those who were affected directly, it is so much more. How do you deal with this if you are a teacher?

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Topics for teacher trainings

Teaching controversial issues

Based on approaches of education for democratic citizenship and human rights, we offer tools and strategies for teaching and managing controversial issues in school.

Prevention of hate speech

We offer trainings based on Bookmarks, which is a manual for combating hate speech through human rights education.

Alternative education spaces

Since 2015, the EWC and Utøya have worked together to develop Utøya as a place for learning. In our teacher trainings we strengthen the competences of teachers to use altnerative places for learning in their practice.

Our partners

Funded by

  • The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Science

Project team

Ingrid Aspelund

Head of Youth Section

Other projects

No hate against Sámi people

DEMRED - Strengthening democratic resilience through education

International project

Prevention of online hate speech

"Prevention of hate speech online" supported teachers and school communities in their fight against hate speech and discrimination and was part of the Norwegian government’s action plan against radicalization and violent extremism.

Hate I´m Against

"Hate, I'm against" gave Polish and Norwegian students the skills and tools to organize social campaigns against hate speech and discrimination in their schools and local environments.

Teaching Controversial Issues in the Nordic Countries

School leaders and teachers from 13 schools in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden took part in a 3-day training at Utøya as part of the Nordic pilot programme on ‘Teaching Controversial Issues and Managing Controversy in the Nordic countries

Signposts International Research Network (SIRN)

The Signposts International Research Network (SIRN), is a group of European researchers and curriculum developers concerned to improve the quality of religious and worldview education in schools.

Dealing with Controversy in the Nordic Countries

The project aimed to strengthen particpants' competences in creating safe and inclusive spaces for teaching and discussing controversial issues with young people.

Learning Resources on 22 July

Teaching and learning resources on the terror attacks 22 July 2011 and related issues.

Trainings for students and teachers

Learning Democracy at Utøya offers trainings and workshops for students and their teachers .