Civitas: An International Civic Education Exchange Program

CIVITAS International is a non-governmental organization for civic education funded by the U.S. Department of Education and directed by the Center for Civic Education. The organization's goals include strengthening effective education for informed citizenship in established and emerging democracies around the world.  Individuals, international organizations, non-governmental, and governmental organizations make up CIVITAS. The program works to maintain a worldwide civic education network utilizing all available resources and means of communication, including computer networking, international exchanges, and other means, to bring the knowledge, skills, and experiences of civic educators to bear on the momentous tasks that confront today's emerging and established democracies

Indiana University's Center for Social Studies and International Education has served as a primary site partner for twelve years.  The Eastern European partners in the project are Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.  Among the project's goals are to have educational leaders from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania visit U.S. classrooms to observe how civic education is taught, to confer with U.S. teachers about teaching and learning in civic education, and to participate with U.S. students in civics classrooms. In addition, U.S. teachers are to have similar opportunities to observe, confer, and participate in each of the Baltic countries.

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