How do I arrive at an opinion that I can defend instead of uttering unconstructive killer phrases? Is a majority decision on an issue always a good result for the community?
Core questions of democratic decision-making procedures already arise in everyday situations, when it is just a matter of finding a suitable restaurant for a group of friends with different preferences or a school class is faced with the question of what to do with the money earned from the class treasury.
Last Thursday, 15 June, lecturer Antje Hildt from the Democracy Centre Baden-Württemberg tested which strategies can be used to reach a consensus and how to live with the result as a community together with the learning partners of learning level 9. In the one-and-a-half-hour workshop course, the participants had to, for example, create an advertising poster and jointly agree on three terms to be used, or consider the scope and limits of parliamentary representation for large interest groups in the theory part.
The Democracy Centre Baden-Württemberg offers for schools under the thematic area of Shaping democracy courses that can be booked free of charge, which help to practically implement the obligatory guiding perspective of democracy education of the 2016 education plan with varied tasks. The workshop experience was a benefit for learning level 9: "It is a central developmental task of young people to reflect on the consequences of their decisions not only with regard to themselves, but also in terms of their effect on the group," explains Maria Montalbano, learning group facilitator of 9.1.
In the next school year, there will again be offers for democracy education in individual learning groups.
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