Informal Learning of Active Citizenship at School
An International Comparative Study in Seven European Countries
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Beschreibung
Active citizenship is an objective of schooling in an increasingly complex context, in which social cohesion of the multicultural society is a cause for growing societal concern. International co-operation between European countries and a growing heterogeneity of the (school) populations of most European countries have led to an increased interest in education for citizenship. The core question dealt with pertains to the role that schools can play in developing citizenship through formal and informal learning.
Day-to-day school life is seen as a rich environment in which aspects of functioning in a democratic society and dynamic interplay with rules, leadership and peers with different backgrounds are experienced and form a source of learning. In this view the school context functions as a micro-cosmos to exercise “school citizenship” as a bridge to societal citizenship and state citizenship. The book brings together material from Cyprus, Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Romania and The Netherlands.
Addresses informal learning at school, an innovative topic Provides rich case descriptions from seven countries Shows the road ahead in how schools can deal with citizenship education Is embedded in an explicit theoretical framework
Autor*in
Jaap Scheerens
Themen in »Informal Learning of Active Citizenship at School«
Peers active citizenship education informal learning interculturality learning school school learning