Schools, Curriculum and Civic Education for Building Democratic Citizens

ISBN: 9789462091665 出版年：2012 页码：156 Murray Print Dirk Lange Brill

How can schools and the school curriculum contribute to building democratic citizens? This is a major question posed by governments, educational systems, schools, teachers and researchers around the world. One important way is to identify the competences needed for preparing democratic citizens and incorporate these within both the formal and informal school curriculum. Another question must then be posedwhat competences do young citizens need to be considered as active and engaged in modern democracies?