Political didactics and political education in Germany

Abstract: The paper gives an overview of the sections of the professionalization of political didactics as an academic discipline in Germany. The first section describes the development of political education and political didactics in schools showing a process of increasing professionalization as a result of engagements with various political influences. In the next part, the beginnings of political didactics and Politics as a school subject are presented. The following part describes the professionalization phase of political didactics and teacher education, with the designation of chairs of political didactics in institutes of political science. The goals and normative ideas that individual political didactics specialists have developed for teaching politics are also discussed. For reasons of space, the previously mentioned parts and the subsequent synopses only partially cover the initial proposition. The fourth part traces the politicization and depoliticization of didactics and of the

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 53-65 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet ; In: Kennedy, Kerry J. (Hg.), Brunold, Andreas (Hg.): Regional Contexts and Citizenship Education in Asia and Europe. 2016. S. 53-65. ISBN 978-1-138-90815-4

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2016
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Abingdon
• (who): Routledge
• (when): 2016
• Creator: Weißeno, Georg
• Contributor: Kennedy, Kerry J. ; Brunold, Andreas

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-72160-3
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:45 PM CET