Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and practices of participation appropriately? Can this
Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and practices of participation appropriately? Can this standard approach to participation be translated into action in view of diverse polities, policies, political cultures, institutions and practices of participation? This book explores what prerequisites must be given for a successful implementation of such a comprehensive international project.
Introduction: Critical Approaches to Education for Civic and Political
Participation Reinhold Hedtke and Tatjana Zimenkova Part I:
Taken-for-Grantedness and Hidden Normativity? Foundations and Framings of
Participatory Education Policies
1. Dealing with Dissatisfaction: Role,
Skills and Meta-Competencies of Participatory Citizenship Education Detlef
Sack
2. Active Citizenship as Harmonious Co-Existence? About the Political in
Participatory Education Tatjana Zimenkova
3. Who is Afraid of a
Non-Conformist Youth? The Right to Dissent and to Not Participate Reinhold
Hedtke Part II: Ambitious Policies, Ambiguous Practices? Approaches and
Impacts of Participatory Education in Schools and Beyond
4. Policy Approaches
to Quality of Citizenship Education by European Intergovernmental
Organisations Herman Josef Abs and Sarah Werth
5. Motivated by Education or
Encouraged by Opportunities? A Comparative Perspective on Knowledge and
Participation Nexus
Anu Toots
6. Putting Participation into Practice: Re-Evaluating the
Implementation of the Citizenship Curriculum in England Avirl Keating and
David Kerr Part III: Included by Education, Excluded by Politics? Tensions,
Gaps and Contradictions of Participatory Education
7. Education, Citizenship
and Deliberative Democracy: Sens Capability Perspective Tristan McCowan and
Elaine Unterhalter
8. Citizenship Education Without Citizenship? The Migrant
in EU Education Policy on European Citizenship Toward the Margin through
Strangification Maria Olson
9. Sharing Political Power or Caring for the
Public Good? The Impact of Service Learning on Civic and Political
Participation Tatjana Zimenkova Part IV: Shadows of the Pasts, Privacies in
the Present? Tracing Participatory Education Back to Soviet and Authoritarian
Systems
10. A Relational Approach to Citizenship: Between Civicness and
Authoritarianism Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
11. Visions of the Authoritarian
Past in Citizenship Education Policies and Practices in Spain and Portugal
Pedro D. Ferreira, Andreia Caetano, Mariana Rodrigues, Carina C. Lopes, Sofia
C. Pais, Helena C. Araújo and Isabel Menezes Part V: Conclusion
12.
Concluding Remarks: Object of Participation Policies, Subject of Political
Participation? Tatjana Zimenkova and Reinhold Hedtke
Reinhold Hedtke is Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University.
Tatjana Zimenkova is Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Faculty for Sociology, Bielefeld University.
