Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Cue
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Trending
  • Makhanda’s R6 million schools boost
  • Important tax-saving opportunities come and go
  • Two concerts on the cards for Makhanda
  • Queer people and sex workers are badly treated in clinics, new survey finds
  • Rhodes University welcomes 1600 first-year students
  • The more you read, the better you get
  • The largest-ever cohort for GADRA Matric School
  • Eskom Power Alert 1
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Cue
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Grocott's Mail
You are at:Home»Uncategorized»Schools devote a week to civics
Uncategorized

Schools devote a week to civics

_Gr0cCc0Tts_By _Gr0cCc0Tts_October 16, 2014No Comments2 Mins Read
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email

The second annual Schools Democracy Week took place this week as part of a joint project between the Electoral Commission of South Africa and the Department of Basic Education to educate young people about democracy.

The second annual Schools Democracy Week took place this week as part of a joint project between the Electoral Commission of South Africa and the Department of Basic Education to educate young people about democracy.

The project is designed to increase youth registration and to educate youth and first-time voters on registration and voting.

The long-term objective is to entrench active participation as fundamental civic responsibilities and to add electoral democracy content into the formal school curriculum at all levels.

Some 40% of South Africa's population of about 53 million people was born after the advent of our democracy in 1994 and nearly two-thirds of our population is under 35 years of age.

However, only 28% of potential voters under 30 voted in the 7 May 2014 elections compared to an average turnout of over 60% for those aged 40 and older and 70% for those aged 60 and older.

Teaching and learning support materials developed to support the activities have been distributed to provincial and local offices of the Electoral Commission, including: a 58-page booklet “Becoming a Good Citizen: Electoral Democracy Toolkit” for learners in secondary schools in FET and a 95-page booklet “Not Too Young – Teaching Electoral Democracy to Young South Africans” for primary schools.

All materials and classroom activities are linked to co-curricular activities and social media opportunities on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.

For more details on the programme and materials, visit the IEC website at www.elections.org.za or the Department of Basic Education’s website at http://www.education.gov.za/

Previous ArticleBanter from Bahrain: Slumdog Rocket Scientist
Next Article Taking in the view from the North
_Gr0cCc0Tts_

Comments are closed.

Tweets by Grocotts
Newsletter



Listen

The Rhodes University Community Engagement Division has launched Engagement in Action, a new podcast which aims to bring to life some of the many ways in which the University interacts with communities around it. Check it out below.

Humans of Makhanda

Humans of Makhanda

Weather    |     About     |     Advertise     |     Subscribe     |     Contact     |     Support Grocott’s Mail

© 2023 Maintained by School of Journalism & Media Studies.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.