Paspoort 21
Social studies
Passport to society
We believe that the learning process is valuable and meaningful when it is connected and coherent. Despite the close connections between geography, history, and economy, social studies frequently lacks this very connection. What could be more ideal than learning about this unity and connection while on an exploratory journey?
Passport 21 is a thematic teaching method that takes students on an organized journey of discovery while addressing today’s most relevant issues. Passport 21 grows alongside the student: the challenges on the journey become greater, and the student’s backpack (both literally and figuratively) fills with knowledge and skills. In this way, teachers and students create a passport to society together.
Impression
Content
Interactive learning environment
Passport 21 is the new digital Social Studies method for the lower years of vocational education. In the interactive digital learning environment, theory and application come together into one coherent learning process through the interconnectedness of themes, the chronological structure of the content, and the inclusion of current issues. Students embark on a journey through global topics and historical periods, guided by socially relevant themes. Each theme follows the same structure and consists of four sections: orientation, geography, history, and current affairs. Throughout these sections, economics and citizenship are also addressed.
Glossary backpack
Students embark on a journey through time and space. Like a true traveler, each student can carry the knowledge they’ve gained in their glossary backpack, a virtual backpack filled with key terms they have collected. Every new theme will require the application of this expertise once more. Students gain a deeper grasp of society and learn to recognize and connect ideas through this ongoing cycle of repetition, deepening, and application.
Skills
In the interactive learning environment, students learn how to use an atlas and Google Earth, establish relationships between regions, organize history chronologically, recognize change and continuity, understand the context of time and place, and evaluate sources. As the journey progresses, the complexity also increases.
