The Science of Civic Education at the TU Dresden

The Chair for Didactics of Civic Education at the TU Dresden is the only chair with this special focus in the Federal State of Saxony. Accordingly, an extensive task field results.

However, our research is fundamentally focused on the question of how Civic Education can be more inclusive which means: successfully addressing all people. Opportunities arise if you look for example at Civic Education in vocational schools, Civic Education for refugees, or Civic Education in the context of community or social work.

Another field we are working on is tackling the relationship between Cultural Education and Civic Education. The main question we are working on in this field is: What  can Civic Education learn from Cultural Education? Some of the issues we are concerned with are whether the museum is a good place for Civics, how we can describe the relationship between politics and theater - but also vice versa, what can Cultural Education learn from Social Studies?

Yet another field of interest results from the specific local situation we are confronted with. Or in other words: In the city of Dresden, one can not ignore the question of how Civic Education can or should be shaped in the context of right-wing populism or extremism.

On last field of interest is directed on the media's role in the field of Civic Education For many years, an important focus of work and research has been on digital media. After having dealt with the question of how Civic Education can take advantage of social media as a supporting tool, we are currently concentrating on television series research.