In person icon Citizenship Education in Times of Change or Crises

Abstract

Current financial, social and political turmoil as well as globalization processes challenges political legitimacy and make politicians search for new means of citizen’s participation and handle frustrations. Schools are arenas where citizenship is taught as well as practised, both formally and informally. Dynamic students’ encounters with different opinions, identities, colours, and cultures turn schools into melting pots for social and political development in times of globalization. Citizenship education research may be regarded as the study of political attempts to give developments of democracy a particular direction. This panel addresses questions and challenges to citizenship education in times of change. We welcome studies of both formal (school) as well as informal learning of civic practices situated in the current social and political environment. We also welcome studies in citizenship education, addressing the development of new civic practices.

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