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The intention of democratic citizenship education in schools is to educate young people in the knowledge, skills and values required to become active citizens in a modern democracy. In this chapter democratic citizenship education relates to school-based activities and thus benchmarking relates to the performance of school students in those activities which are usually located under the name of civic education.
This chapter is based on a research project funded by the Australian Research Council.
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Print, M. (2010). Benchmarking and democratic citizenship education for schools. In: Lange, D., Himmelmann, G. (eds) Demokratiedidaktik. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92534-9_24
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