Beschreibung

Around the world, teaching civics is our most practical tool for learning about democracy. In Germany, the art of civics education is constantly being reconsidered and revised, in part because of the country’s history and the widespread awareness in German society of the dangers posed by education failing to do its job. The aim of this book is to provide educators with a varied and theoretically robust repertoire of professional strategies that are grounded in the social sciences.

The ability of teachers to reflect critically on the meaning and logic of the subject matter they teach and the ways in which their students learn is just as important as their educational experience. This kind of professionalism enables teachers to be imaginative in everyday situations and to deal constructively with challenges arising in the classroom. This handbook can and should be used and responded to in ways that are as diverse as its readers. Readers are invited to make their own choices about how to integrate these matters into their teaching and learning experiences. Many of the examples presented in the book derive from the author’s own teaching experience at universites.

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The Author:

Prof. em. Dr. Sibylle Reinhardt, Professor emeritus for Didactics of Civics at the Institute of Political Sciences, Martin-Luther-University, Halle (Saale), Germany

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Target groups: Students and teachers of Civics, practitioners in the field of democratic learning

Keywords: democratic learning; citizenship; teacher education

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Sibylle Reinhardt

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Keywords

citizenship, Civic education, democratic learning, teacher education

Rezensionen

The book is very well written in an accessible style which is well served by the translation which presents a number of difficult concepts and materials in an engaging manner. Overall the book makes an important contribution at both a scholarly and practical level.

Journal of Social Science Education 2/2016

Das Praxishandbuch von Sibylle Reinhardt ist inzwischen zu einem Klassiker der deutschsprachigen politischen Bildung geworden. In ihm sind über vierzig Jahre reflektierte Erfahrung als Lehrerin an Schule und Hochschule verdichtet. Im englischen Sprachraum kann dieser Klassiker nun erleichtert Verbreitung finden.

Politisches Lernen 3-4/2015

Eine praktikabele Methode, Demokratie zu vermitteln, ist der (Schul-)Unterricht. Das eng-lischsprachige Buch stellt LehrerInnen eine Palette an Strategien und Methoden zur kriti-schen Selbstreflexion bereit, die ihren Ursprung in den Sozialwissenschaften haben. Damit sollen sie dazu ermächtigt werden, einfallsreich im Unterrichtsalltag zu agieren und konstruk-tiv mit den Herausforderungen des Unterrichtssettings umgehen zu können.

GMK-Newsletter 10/2015