SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
About twenty students from the María Pérez Trujillo Secondary Education Institute in Puerto de la Cruz will go this Wednesday, starting at 10:30 a.m., to the main headquarters of the courts in Puerto de la Cruz to star in the reactivation of the program in the Canary Islands. ‘Educate in Justice’.
With this initiative, the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) brings this public service closer to young people in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands, through the General Directorate of Organization of the Teachings, Inclusion and Innovation.
The first cycle of ‘Educating in Justice’ – then called Educating in Justice – was taught in the middle of the last decade, and was reactivated on the islands in 2018, only to be paralyzed again with the pandemic and strikes by judicial groups.
Now, the General Council of the Judiciary is promoting it throughout the State through the communication offices of the superior courts of Justice, the TSJC reports in a note.
The objective of ‘Educate in Justice’ is for students between 15 and 17 years old to acquire sufficient knowledge about the functioning of the justice system in Spain, with special emphasis on aspects such as gender violence or the criminal responsibility of minors. .
Students are also informed about the different jurisdictional orders – civil, criminal, social and contentious – and what type of matters are resolved in each one; how the Administration of Justice is structured or what the development of a criminal trial is.
The Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, from its General Directorate of Education Planning, Inclusion and Innovation, collaborates in the project with students from 17 centers on the islands in the 4th year of ESO and 1st year of Baccalaureate.
For the General Directorate, the main objective is to provide students with direct knowledge of the operation, mechanisms and principles on which the public service of the administration of Justice is regulated.
Likewise, it seeks to generate a democratic consciousness that allows participating students to verify in practice the constitutional principles of the country, the rule of law and the administration of Justice as regulatory mechanisms of our coexistence.
The program is completed with visits to judicial bodies and talks by judges in educational centers, where simulations of trials are staged in which students assume the roles of the parties in the process.
These theatrical performances are presided over by real judges.
