“Intention is not method, belief is not evidence”
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.
Autor: | Gansewig, Dr. Antje |
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ISBN: | 9783658397753 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 171 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Verlag: | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH |
Veröffentlicht: | 22.01.2023 |
Untertitel: | Civic Education and Prevention with Former Right-Wing Extremists in German Schools |
Schlagworte: | biography-based narrations civic education former extremists preventing and countering violent extremism school students |
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.