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Civic Education and Competences forEngaging Citizens in Democracies

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Editors:
  1. Murray Print

    1. University of Sydney, Australia

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  2. Dirk Lange

    1. Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

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  • ment when they complete their studies. How will young Europeans respond to increasing pressures resulting from the GFC? Will their citizenship competences sustain them as their democracies face a difficult future? This book addresses these questions through the identification of citizenship competences needed for engagement in modern democracies.
  • Citizenship education is a worldwide phenomenon that countries are addressing in an increasingly complex, interdependent world. Young people need to understand citizenship and their role as citizens in multiple contexts.
  • What competences are required of young people to become active, engaged citizens? This book addresses this significant question as democracies seek to engage their citizens more actively.
  • Europe has experienced a recession for several years as a result of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Many young Europeans find themselves unemployed or facing the prospect of unemploy

Part of the book series: Civic and Political Education (CAPE, volume 3)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Competences for Democratic Citizens

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Competences for Teaching, Learning and Living Democratic Citizenship

      • Gerhard Himmelmann
      Pages 3-7

    3. Citizenship and the Civic Realities of Everyday Life

      • Jan W. Van Deth
      Pages 9-21

    4. What Does Democracy Need from Its Citizens?

      • Bryony Hoskins
      Pages 23-35

    5. Competencies for Democratic Citizenship in Europe

      • Murray Print
      Pages 37-49

    6. Civic Competences

      • Jan Germen Janmaat
      Pages 51-63

    7. Political Socialization, Civic Consciousness and Political Interest of Young Adults

      • Dirk Lange, Holger Onken
      Pages 65-76

  3. Civic Education Applications and Programs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Learning “How Society Is and Might and Should Be Arranged”

      • Andreas Petrik
      Pages 79-97

    3. Teaching for Democratic Learning

      • Sibylle Reinhardt
      Pages 99-109

    4. Competencies, Stablization of the Democratic System, and Self-Empowerment

      • Béatrice Ziegler
      Pages 111-123

    5. Using Critical Incidents for the Assessment of Citizenship Competence

      • Herman J. Abs, Tina Pyka
      Pages 125-148

    6. Conceptualizing Competences for Democratic Citizenship

      • Murray Print
      Pages 149-162

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 163-166
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Civic Education and Competences for Engaging Citizens in Democracies Murray Print University of Sydney and Dirk Lange Leibniz University of Hannover What competences do young citizens need to be considered as active and engaged in the context of a modern Europe? In 2011 an invited research symposium of leading civic and political educators, social scientists and educational administrators from Europe met in Hannover, Germany to consider this key concern facing Europe today. In examining the above question the symposium addressed two significant issues: 1. Identify key competencies required for active citizenship of young people in Europe of the future. 2. Translate those competencies to school-based activities in the form of curricular and pedagogical strategies. The group addressed these questions through discussion in the symposium and through previously prepared papers. Subsequently the group participated in a modified Delphi Technique to identify the key competences and the final competences are presented in this book. The chapters of this book represent the contribution of the participants before, during and after the symposium with opportunities for review and reflection. Murray Print and Dirk Lange are professors from the University of Sydney and Leibniz University of Hannover respectively and are national leaders in civics and citizenship education in their respective countries. They have brought together a group of leading European civic and citizenship educators from different academic fields to explore the key issue and to identify the competences for young people to become active and engaged European citizens.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sydney, Australia

    Murray Print

  • Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

    Dirk Lange

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