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Street Law / Countries / Estonia / Estonia

Estonia

Status: Active

Programs

Open Society Institute/Street Law Network Program

A grant from the Open Society Institute, part of the Soros Foundation network, funded the development of the Open Society Institute/Street Law Network Program. The goal of the program was to develop practical law texts for secondary schools and to train educators in interactive teaching methods in Eastern and Central... Read more

Deliberating in a Democracy

Deliberating in a Democracy (DID) is an international program to teach students how to deliberate controversial public issues. The program challenges students in U.S. classrooms to tackle current civic issues with partner schools in Latin America, Central/Eastern Europe, and North/Western Asia. Through classroom deliberations and videoconferences, students learn more about critical... Read more

Democracy Education Exchange Project (DEEP)

Street Law, along with five other U.S. democracy education organizations, designed and operated the Democracy Education Exchange Project (DEEP). The program’s goal was to help students in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union develop the knowledge, skills, and character traits essential to... Read more

Background

The Jaan Tõnisson Institute–Civic Education Centre is the leader of civic education in Estonia. The Centre participated in the Open Society Institute/Street Law Network Program from 1998–2002. In 2001, they published two Street Law texts for secondary students in Russian and Estonian.

Estonian secondary law text

The Centre also participates in the Deliberating in a Democracy program and coordinates the participation of five schools across Estonia. Visit the Estonia section of the Deliberating in a Democracy web site to learn more.

Contacts

Jaan Tõnisson Institute–Civic Education Centre
Sulev Valdmaa, director (sulev@jti.ee)
Piret Multer, project manager (piret@jti.ee)
Pikk 7, 10123, Tallinn, Estonia
Phone: +372 681 69 88
Fax: +372 681 69 89
Web: www.jti.ee/kodanikuharidus/en/