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Scenario submission for Grundtvig Workshop

Grundtvig Workshop on “Collaborative Learning and

Sharing about Politics”

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Communitarianism

24. dec. 2010Maribor, Slovenia

Žiga Štajnbaher

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Scenario DescriptionTopic: Economy and politicsTitle: CommunitarianismObjective: provoke discussion and the exchange of views or

learning about political issuesShort descriptionCommunitarianism emerged in the 1980s as a response to the limits of liberal theory and practice. Its dominant themes are that individual rights need to be balanced with social responsibilities, and that autonomous selves do not exist in isolation, but are shaped by the values and culture of communities. Unless we begin to redress the balance toward the pole of community, communitarians believe, our society will continue to become norm less, self-centered, and driven by special interests and power seeking. (Civic dictionary: http://www.cpn.org/tools/dictionary/communitarian.html, 24. 12. 2010)

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Scenario DescriptionList of activitiesActivity 1: Find a video that presents a view on the debate about

communitarianism and provide your comments.Activity 2: Write down the new words and concepts. Find

explanations for them.Activity 3: Find to topic related interview or an article and

comment the presented opinions.Activity 4: Search the additional information and present what

you found about communitarianism.Activity 5: Search in image sharing web sites to find a related

image (with a non commercial license) and write a few words to present your views about communitarianism.

Activity 6: Find the idea of communitarianism in your county.Activity 7: Make presentation summarizing what you found out

about communitarianism and publish it.

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Activity 1

Learning tasks: Find a video that presents a view on the debate about communitarianism and provide your comments.

Tools/resources: YouTube or other video sharing web space.

Duration: 40 min

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Screenshot of Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPW5rC-chDU, 24. 12. 2010

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Comments on Video

This results in a decline in social capital, are described as the collective value of all social networks and the inclinations that rise from these networks to do things for each other. Social capital is a key component to building and maintaining people democracy. Central to the communitarian philosophy is the concept of positive rights, which are rights or guarantees to certain things. These may include state subsidized education, state subsidized housing, a safe and clean environment, universal health care and even the right to a job with the concomitant obligation of the government or individuals to provide one. To this end, communitarians support social security programs, public works programs, and laws limiting such things as pollution. Communitarianism cannot be classified as being wholly left or right, and many theorists claim to represent a sort of radical centre. Communitarians and conservatives generally agree on cultural issues, such as support for character education and faith-based programs, but communitarians do not support the laissez-faire capitalism.

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Activity 2

Learning tasks: Write down new words and concepts. Find explanations for them.

Tools/resources: web dictionaries

Duration: depends on user or learner, his previous knowledge and experiences

Note: activity 2 is optional, depends on individual user (formal learner or informal user)

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Activity 3

Learning tasks: Find a related interview or an article in a blog, wiki or a forum and comment on the presented opinions.

Tools/resources: Blogs, Wikis, Forums, Search servers

Duration: 40 min

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Screenshot of Article http://www.janda.org/b20/News%20articles/GW%2C%20the%20Communitarian.htm, 24. 12. 2010

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Related article main ideaThis article of Dana Milbank talks about "Communitarianism”. She explains that the economic system we have is unjust and it’s not democratic at all. Communitarianism or civil society thinking has many interpretations, but at its center is a notion that years of celebrating individual freedom have weakened the bonds of community and that the rights of the individual must be balanced against the interests of society as a whole. Inherent in the philosophy is a return to values and morality, which, the school of thought believes, can best be fostered by community organizations. Civil society need to connect with one another. We've got to move a little more in the direction of community in the balance between community and the individual.

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Activity 4

Learning tasks: Search the web and find some useful information about communitarianism.

Tools/resources: different search servers

Duration: 30 min

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Screenshot of Web Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communitarianism#Terminology

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Useful InformationCommunitarianism emphasizes the need to balance individual rights and interests with that of the community as a whole, and argues that individual people or citizens are shaped by the cultures and values of their communities. Though the term communitarianism is of 20th-century origin, it is derived from the 1840s term communitarian, which was coined by Goodwyn Barmby to refer to one who was a member or advocate of a communalist society. The modern use of the term is a redefinition of the original sense. Many communitarians trace their philosophy to earlier thinkers.

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Activity 5

Learning tasks: Search for a related picture (with a non commercial license) and write a few words to present your view about comunitarianism.

Tools/resources: Flickr or other picture sharing web space

Duration: 25 min

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Picture http://www3.telus.net/awareness/commlink.htm, 24. 12. 2010

Balanced necessary conditions

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My Personal View

There is not an easy answer to the question whether communitarianism is the best community system or not. While the people in my country feel that there is great injustice in the economic system that we have, it is not clear whether this is due to the system itself or the people that are implementing it and set the rules and regulations of the political and market system. Modern society need a different and more fair system and we need more fair multy-party political system to implement communitarianism in the form it was intended to protect all citizens.

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Activity 6

Learning tasks: Find the idea of communitarianism in your county and compare with particular international web page ideas.

Tools/resources: local web pages

Duration: 40 min

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Polona Kršmanc Šiško presents her view and illustrates the idea of communitarianism with different examples, one of them is ferry tale

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

http://delamznasmehom.blog.siol.net/tag/kolektivizem/, 24. 12. 2010

Web ‘fame ‘ for concept of communitarianismhttp://www.google.co.uk/ http://www.google.si/ http://www.google.gr

242 000 156 000 (komunizem) 99 800 (Κομμουνισμός)

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Activity 7

Learning tasks: Make presentation what you found out about communitarianism and publish it.

Tools/resources: power point , blog, forum or wiki or politics platform

Duration: 40 min

Note: optional, depends on individual user (formal learner or informal user)