Gansewig “Intention is not method, belief is not evidence”

Civic Education and Prevention with Former Right-Wing Extremists in German Schools
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-658-39776-0
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 171 Seiten, eBook

For over 20 years, school interventions involving former right-wing extremists have been popular in Germany. In practice, they are advertised and conducted as both civic education and extremism prevention. This book uses an evidence-based and interdisciplinary approach to examine the potentials and challenges of this format. It provides a thematic embedding of German application, a comprehensive review of attributed impact assumptions and the state of related research. Furthermore, this research offers highly valuable, unique and comprehensive insights based on empirical evidence. It thus contributes to a better understanding of the format and its complexity. Overall, the findings give no clear indication that the involvement of former right-wing extremists in schools initiate civic education processes or prevent political extremism. Rather, the investigation found fundamental needs for additional research, modification, and sensitization. In this vein, this book makes a pioneer contribution to quality assurance and evaluation research in civic education and extremism prevention.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gansewig, Dr. Antje

Gansewig, Antje

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Structure of the book.- Synopsis.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Antje Gansewig worked in the fields of political extremism, crime prevention and civic education for several state institutions (e.g., State Prevention Council Schleswig-Holstein, National Center for Crime Prevention, Federal Agency for Civic Education). Currently, she is a researcher at the University of Oldenburg, Institute for Social Sciences, Department for Political Education.