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🏛️ 'Promoting Democracy at School: Strategies to Foster Democratic Learning Environments in Classrooms'—the newest Teacher Snippet from IEA!

🔦 To accompany Vol. 3 of Research for Educators, released yesterday on the topic of building democratic learning environments, the new teacher snippet explores how democratic learning environments both at the school and classroom level help students to become engaged citizens.

The Snippet provides practical examples of role-play activities that teachers can use to help students develop civic knowledge, attitudes, and skills.

🔗 It's available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish! Check it out here: https://www.iea.nl/publications/iea-teachers-snippet/promoting-democracy-at-school

Please share for all the teachers in your network 👋

'Figuring out students’ willingness to engage; this is as important as the knowledge in civics and citizenship. What are their attitudes, their beliefs? Do we believe in democracy? Will we vote? Do we believe in other peoples’ rights? Teachers play such a special role here.'
🗣️Dirk Hastedt, IEA Executive Director

🏛️ Deep and thoughtful discussions on the crucial importance of promoting democratic learning for civic and citizenship education, with emphasis on the central role of teachers and the need to support their work, at today's official launch of 'Experiencing Democracy in the Classroom'. We heard meaningful contributions from authors and experts.

🤝 Thank you to our wonderful colleagues at Education International for their collaboration and hosting of this special event. Watch this space for a recording coming soon!

🔗 Download the book and find out more about the new accompanying teacher resources: https://www.iea.nl/news-events/news/new-release-iea-research-educators-volume-3

📸 Sharing insights and findings from the newly released volume of Research for Educators with colleagues from the EU Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) in Brussels this morning.

🔎Did you know? The European Commission listed citizenship as one of the 5 basic skills in its 2025 Union of Skills. These basic skills are competences that are the foundation for individuals to become independent, better informed and prepared, engaged and active citizens.

📘 The release of 'Experiencing Democracy in the Classroom: Building Democratic Learning Environments to Promote Civic Learning' supports teachers with tools and examples of practices to facilitate democratic learning environments, strengthen civic learning, and foster students’ attitudes and engagement in the classroom.

🔗 Download it for free here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-25449-8

📘 New from Research for Educators!

We're delighted to share that the third volume in our book series for teachers is available now.

🏛️ 'Experiencing Democracy in the Classroom: Building Democratic Learning Environments to Promote Civic Learning' draws on findings from IEA’s ICCS (International Civic and Citizenship Education Study), and connects insights on civic and citizenship education with practical teaching strategies.

🔗 https://ow.ly/JuIZ50ZcC8R

💡 This volume is accompanied by several open-access resources designed to support teachers and teacher trainers in applying these insights directly in the classroom.

The new Teacher Snippet - 'Promoting Democracy at School: Strategies to Foster Democratic Learning Environments in Classrooms' - provides practical examples of role-play activities that help students develop civic knowledge, attitudes, and skills.

Additionally, multiple ready-to-use classroom activities taken from national case studies in chapter five are available for download. These activities are designed to engage students directly and encourage them to explore contemporary issues in meaningful ways.

🔗 Read more on the release and check out all the resources here: https://ow.ly/69So50ZcC8S

🤝 Like, share and comment for teachers in your network as we look to bridge the gap between education research and educational practice

📸 Lauren Musu, Miguel Zea, and David Ebbs from IEA's Translation Verification and International Quality Control (TIQ) Team visiting our valued partners at cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control last week, to discuss translation verification work for TIMSS 2027.

🤝 IEA and cApStAn colleagues had productive conversations about outcomes from the field test and preparations for the main data collection. We thank the team at cApStAn for their hospitality and collaboration!

📸 IEA's Paula Koršňáková speaking last week at the International Conference on Research in Teaching and Education, in Vienna.

Paula and Andrea Netten together presented on research into effective digital reading instruction, and explored how scientific research can be translated into practical, ready-to-use lesson ideas.

🔎 Interested in more on this topic? Check out the second volume in our book series for teachers! Released last year, 'Teaching Reading Comprehension in a Digital World' highlights the differences between print and on-screen reading, considers the skills required for effective digital reading, and shares practices from schools in Ireland, Italy, and Singapore, based on their participation in PIRLS: https://ow.ly/OW0x50ZbObj

💫 The call for submissions for the IEA International Research Conference 2027 is open!

➡️ We invite you to submit a proposal for individual papers, symposia, or posters that aligns with your research interests. The deadline for submissions is 15 November 2026 at 11:59pm CET.

➡️ Submissions must be relevant to IEA work and based on IEA data.

💡 The 12th IRC will take place in Bangkok from 23-25 June 2027, and is dedicated to the theme "Understanding Change, Advancing Education" — focusing on how IEA data can advance education research and inform policy for sustainable and lasting impact in a time when the landscape of education is rapidly changing.

🔗 Get all the details on submitting a proposal TO here: https://ow.ly/T0kw50ZbIGs

🚨 Volume 3 of IEA Research for Educators is coming this month!

'Experiencing Democracy in the Classroom: Building Democratic Learning Environments to Promote Civic Learning' is the first book in this series that draws on findings from IEA's International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS).

📘 This volume explores how schools can create democratic learning environments that support civic learning and active participation. It offers a unique set of open-access resources for teachers and teacher trainers, including practical teaching strategies and international examples from Brazil, Italy, Slovenia, and the Netherlands.

Sign up to the IEA Newsletter to receive it in your inbox on 17 June: https://www.iea.nl/publications/teacher-resources/volume-3-coming-soon