For democracies to be effective and to ensure their future they require the ac participation of
their citizens. Citizens may acquire the knowledge, skills, va and dispositions to be active …

A significant outcome of the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and beyo been the
recognition that people need to be educated about the importance democracy and …

This paper provides a synthesis of the scholarly literature on education for democratic
citizenship (EDC) in the school sector in England since 1995. Following the publication of …

According to social scientists Herfried Münkler in Germany and Colin Crouch in England,
major developments in Western industrial societies—individualism, increasing social …

Background In August 1999, a democratic institute was held in Hungary, with middle school
teachers invited from Ukraine and Hungary. They participated in an eight-day institute to …

Democratic education is premised on a democratic school. However, the provision of
democratic education is proved to be problematic in a large number of studies. Among the …

Schools never operate in a vacuum. They are always subject to different and often
conflicting expectations and demands from a range of stakeholders. In modern societies …

Attention to and concern about education for citizenship appears to have increased in recent
years throughout the world, at least in terms of the extent of discussion and the number of …

This article discusses the background to and deliberations of the Advisory Group on
Education for Citizenship and the Teaching Democracy in Schools established by Secretary …

One target of the International Citizenship Education Symposium at the Leibniz University
Hannover was to compare different approaches towards Education for Democratic …