Overview
- Explores the interconnections between learning, democratic citizenship and the public sphere
- Approaches democracy as an ongoing public experiment
- Uses a consistent framework to make theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions
- Explores the democratic potential of social work practices ?
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This books explores the relationships between learning, democratic citizenship and the public sphere from thee interconnected angles: theory, methodology and research. The main message of the book is that civic learning necessarily has a public character, as it is learning that emerges from engagement in democratic processes and practices that occur both at the centre and the margins of society. Through a combination of theoretical development, methodological reflection and empirical case study, the chapters in the book provide new insights in the complexities of learning in the context of the ongoing struggle for democracy.
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Keywords
- children's rights education
- civic learning
- complexities of learning
- democracy in social work
- democratic learning
- learning, democratic citizenship and the public sphere
- methodological reflection
- social learning and democratic citizenship
- socialisation and subjectification
- socializing civil society
- theoretical development
- theory, methodology and research
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Theory
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Research
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Civic Learning, Democratic Citizenship and the Public Sphere
Editors: Gert Biesta, Maria De Bie, Danny Wildemeersch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7259-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7258-8Published: 18 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7983-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7259-5Published: 07 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 214
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, International and Comparative Education