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Civic Learning, Democratic Citizenship and the Public Sphere

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Editors:
  1. Gert Biesta

    1. Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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  2. Maria De Bie

    1. Dept. of Social Welfare Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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  3. Danny Wildemeersch

    1. Laboratory for Education and Society, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  • Explores the interconnections between learning, democratic citizenship and the public sphere
  • Approaches democracy as an ongoing public experiment
  • Uses a consistent framework to make theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions
  • Explores the democratic potential of social work practices ?

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Learning in Public Places: Civic Learning for the Twenty-First Century

    • Gert Biesta
    Pages 1-11

  4. Methodology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Mapping Children’s Presence in the Neighbourhood

      • Sven De Visscher
      Pages 73-89

    3. Research as Response: Methodological Reflections

      • Carmen Mathijssen, Danny Wildemeersch
      Pages 91-105

    4. Action Research and Democracy

      • Rudi Roose, Maria Bouverne-De Bie, Griet Roets
      Pages 107-121

    5. Educational Research on Community Building Practices: From Evaluation to Witnessing

      • Peter Reyskens, Joke Vandenabeele
      Pages 123-136

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 213-214
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About this book

This books explores the relationships between learning, democratic citizenship and the public sphere from thee interconnected angles: theory, methodology and research. The main message of the book is that civic learning necessarily has a public character, as it is learning that emerges from engagement in democratic processes and practices that occur both at the centre and the margins of society. Through a combination of theoretical development, methodological reflection and empirical case study, the chapters in the book provide new insights in the complexities of learning in the context of the ongoing struggle for democracy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Gert Biesta

  • Dept. of Social Welfare Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Maria De Bie

  • Laboratory for Education and Society, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Danny Wildemeersch

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Civic Learning, Democratic Citizenship and the Public Sphere

  • Editors: Gert Biesta, Maria De Bie, Danny Wildemeersch

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7259-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7258-8Published: 18 October 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7983-8Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7259-5Published: 07 October 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 214

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, International and Comparative Education

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