Teaching Civic Education in a Migrating Global Community: How Can Students with a Migration Background Contribute to Didactics and Civic Education Theory?

Susann Gessner

doi:10.4119/jsse-833

Teaching Civic Education in a Migrating Global Community: How Can Students with a Migration Background Contribute to Didactics and Civic Education Theory?

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Susann Gessner Philipps-Universität Marburg Institut für Politikwissenschaft Wilhelm-Röpke-Str. 6, Raum 58 35032 Marburg

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https://doi.org/10.4119/jsse-833

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Purpose: The article enquires about how young migrants perceive and evaluate civic education in school and what expectations they have of the subject.

Method: The article is based on a qualitative-oriented research work based on the Grounded Theory; surveys were made by interviews with students.

Findings: The article emphasises that educational theorists can learn something from young migrants about the content and construction of civic education in a migrating Global Community.

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2017-07-08

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Gessner, S. (2017). Teaching Civic Education in a Migrating Global Community: How Can Students with a Migration Background Contribute to Didactics and Civic Education Theory?. JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 16(2), 42–52. https://doi.org/10.4119/jsse-833

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