Democratic Society and Education

Abstract: In March 2010 the Congress of the German Educational Research Association (GERA/DGfE) was held in Mainz. This year‘s topic “Bildung in der Demokratie” (Education in a Democratic Society) touched upon the classic questions and concerns of processes of learning in the domain of the social sciences, i.e. social, economic or political subjects. Therefore, in these conference proceedings we intend to present the research-trends and theoretical profiles that should be of interest especially for teaching the social sciences. Three major trends in the discipline were represented at the conference with their rather different understandings of education in social sciences: knowledge-oriented subject matter didactics, socially-oriented “Demokratiedidaktik” (didactics of democracy), and a systemic and function-oriented sociology of education. Unfortunately, dialogue between these trends was rare at Mainz. The congress proceedings will thus try to show the different approaches they ta.... http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/508

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Democratic Society and Education ; volume:9 ; number:1 ; day:12 ; month:07 ; year:2010 ; Journal of social science education ; 9, Heft 1 (12.07.2010)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Busch, Matthias ; Grammes, Tilman

Further information

• DOI: 10.4119/jsse-508
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019011815433945337314
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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