Education for Civic and Political Participation: A Critical Approach: 92 (Routledge Research in Education) - Hardcover

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.

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.