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On August 23, the Minister of education M. Kuneva presented for public discussion draft standard for civil, health, environmental and intercultural education. Although presented primarily as regulating lesson of the class,the standard with the complex name has much wider application: in extracurricular activities, enhanced training and even as a separate subject. Although the topics of traffic safety, financial literacy and action to terrorist threats were explicitely underlined during its presentation, the standard provides a much wider range of subjects, divided into four components of the standard - civic, health, environmental and intercultural education.

Accidentally or not, intercultural competencies and formation of tolerance to which it should contribute, were not mentioned during the presentation of the standard, maybe because protection of these values is not very popular or because they are considered natural and understandable "with indisputable clarity" from all. In fact, the original idea of the standard, which was formulated back in 2010 was to be for civic and intercultural education and to regulate not only the purely technical requirements but also strategic policies for the development of student government and the creation of a multicultural school environment.

At first reading, the submitted for public discussion draft is considerably more narrow  technically from the original idea of it, as the key / strategic and innovative elements in it are omitted. The presented version surprised also the members of the working group, which developed it because it was not discussed beforehand with them.

The presented version is draft and can be changed and improved. Comments and suggestions on it send to "Educational programs and educational content", e-mail: kosta.kostov@mon.bg and a.zgurov@mon.bg to September 7, 2016.

The draft version, see here

Analysis of the proposed draft version coming soon to www.amalipe.com