Press reviews

On this page you will find press reviews of JoDiDD and its director Prof. Dr. Anja Besand^:

• Die Freie Presse August 28, 2024 https://www.freiepresse.de/nachrichten/sachsen/die-hakenkreuze-von-nebenan-kann-schule-die-rote-linie-nicht-mehr-verteidigen-artikel13500950#google_vignette
• VETO Magazine on the question "Has political education failed?" https://wahl.veto-mag.de/bildung/
• Der Spiegel with an interview with Anja Besand about right-wing extremist incidents in schools https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/bildung/hakenkreuz-hitlergruss-rassistisches-gegroele-was-lehrkraefte-in-solchen-faellen-auf-keinen-fall-tun-sollten-a-89ca77b0-84f5-408e-b988-6b50ab70ace9

• On April 26, 2024, the Sächsische Zeitung published a long interview with our principal entitled:

  Political education: Contradiction, doubt, questioning

  A stable society is made up of responsible citizens. Civic education supports this. The TUD is researching which formats are particularly helpful and how they can be used. online at: https: //www.saechsische.de/anzeige/widerspruch-zweifel-hinterfragen-36670.html

• On April 17, 2024, an interview with our director appeared in the magazine die Klasse and on the SMK Sachsen blog entitled: Bildung braucht Haltung, online at: https: //www.bildung.sachsen.de/blog/index.php/2024/04/17/bildung-braucht-haltung/

• On April 12, 2024, Deutschland Radio Kultur published a longer article about our new study entitled: Why more cohesion is needed in rural areas. Especially in rural areas, it is difficult to get people excited about social or political activities. Researchers at TU Dresden have found this out. But they also make suggestions as to how this could be changed. Online at: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/demokratie-warum-es-auf-dem-land-mehr-politischen-austausch-braucht

• On April 04, 2024, the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper published an interview with our director entitled: "Swastika smearings also happen in physics lessons" online at: https: //www.lvz.de/mitteldeutschland/sachsen-was-tun-gegen-rechtsextremismus-an-schulen-forscherin-gibt-tipps-NBU5HRWHMBC3LFDNQWFTKNGFDE.html

• On March 16, 2024, an article appeared in the Sächsische Zeitung in which our director also spoke out under the title:

  When teachers are helpless: What to do about right-wing extremism in Saxony's schools? There are more and more right-wing extremist incidents in Saxony's schools. Experts from TU Dresden and the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs are now taking decisive action against this online at: https: //www.saechsische.de/sachsen/wenn-die-lehrer-hilflos-sind-was-tun-gegen-rechtsextremismus-an-sachsens-schulen-5977740-plus.html

• On January 27, 24, the magazine Flurfunk published an article on the position paper under the title "In a democracy, we are not obliged to participate in our own abolition by referring to majorities". Online at: https: //www.flurfunk-dresden.de/2024/01/27/wir-sind-in-einer-demokratie-nicht-verpflichtet-mit-dem-verweis-auf-mehrheiten-an-unserer-eigenen-abschaffung-mitzuwirken/

• On January 3, 2023 our Director was a guest on Deutschlandfunk's Agenda program. The topic of the program: When global conflicts challenge our society Initiatives for peaceful coexistence.

• In the program Titel Thesen Temperamente from 28.8.2023 a nice contribution with our participation was published. Many beautiful Joddid materials can also be viewed there. The contribution is online until the end of August at: https: //www.daserste.de/information/wissen-kultur/ttt/sendung/ttt-titel-thesen-temperamente-2974.html

• The Deutschlandfunk program Campus und Karriere from 28.8.2023 dealt with the federal government's savings plans in the area of political education. Online at: https: //www.deutschlandfunk.de/campus-und-karriere-28-08-2023-komplette-sendung-dlf-fa9dd014-100.html

• On August 14, 2023 our director was on BR3 on the subject of cuts in the area of democracy work online at https://www.br.de/radio/live/bayern2/programm/2023-08-14/3422225/

• an article with our participation was published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on August 9, 2023 under the title "There is only one thing that is more expensive in the long run than education: no education". Online at: https: //www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/bundeszentrale-fuer-politische-bildung-nancy-faeser-afd-1.6112064?reduced=true

• On July 18, 2023 Campus Schulmanagment published an article with the title

  How can teachers deal with extremism?

  Anja Besand, Chair of Didactics of Civic Education at TUD Dresden University of Technology, explains in an interview how schools can respond to anti-democratic incidents. online at: https://www.campus-schulmanagement.de/magazin/extremismus-an-schulen-brandbrief-brandenburg

• On July 9, 2023 there was an article in the newspaper for Hoyaswerder about the project we portrayed in EINFACH GUT GEMACHT https://hoyte24.de/nachrichten/zusammenspiel-gilt-als-einfach-gut-gemacht

• Democracy education without old hats. A research center at TU Dresden collects fresh ideas for political education - and passes them on. Sächsische Zeitung April 25, 2023 online

• Civic education at dog school was one of the first ideas in our pool of ideas. We tried it out and reflected on it in an evening school play. The Dresdner Neusten Nachrichten reported on it on November 19, 2022.
• In June 2021, a report on our contribution to the 17th German Child and Youth Welfare Day was published. This can be found online on the homepage of the Child and Youth Welfare Professionals Portal.
• Following our successful homepage launch, MDR conducted an interview in the "Knowledge" section with our director Anja Besand about JoDDiD and current issues relating to extracurricular political education in Saxony. You can read the MDR interview about JoDDiD published on April 9, 2021 via the link.
• An interview with Anja Besand was published in the Dresdner Neuste Nachrichten on November 19, 2020 under the headline: Wir konzentrieren sich auf die Falschen - Warum der Dialog mit Querdenkern ist sinnlos.
• In the second JuRe podcast published on November 16, 2020, Steffen Rohkohl, JuRe coordinator at ARBEIT UND LEBEN Sachsen, conducts an interview with Prof. Anja Besand^. She is one of the few academics who deals with the topic of "political education at vocational schools". The conversation covers topics including youth and society, political education at vocational schools and the current 16th Children and Youth Report of the Federal Government 2020.
• Articles on the founding of the new John Dewey Research Center for the Didactics of Democracy appear in various daily newspapers - here is the link to the press release from the Ministry of Justice
• On August 7, 2020, the JETZT magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung published a nice piece on tolerance of ambiguity in which Andreas Zick and Anja Besand exchange positions. You can read the article here.
• On June 20, 2020 an interview with us about the project Starke Lehrer - Starke Schüler was published on the website of the Transferstelle Politische Bildung. You can read it here .
• On May 9, 2020, a report on the question "How good is our digital education" was published in the digital offer of the MDR, in which both Prof^. Dr. Anja^Besand and Prof. Dr. Rico Behrens have their say in detail. You can find the article here.
• A detailed article by Anja Besand appeared in the APuZ parliamentary supplement on March 27, 2020 with the title: Politische Bildung unter Druck. Dealing with right-wing populism in the institution of school.
• On March 24, 2020, the Süddeutsche Zeitung published a review of the politics lesson that Anja Besand designed with the help of the Federal Agency for Civic Education in the context of the corona crisis. The lesson itself on the topic "From House of Cards to Game of Thrones - politics is everywhere" can be found here.
• Part of the event "Political education at vocational schools", at which Prof. Anja^Besand gave the keynote speech, can also be viewed afterwards as an event recording on YouTube.
• At the end of July 2019, the Freie Presse published an article about our event in Leipzig. Unfortunately, it can only be read online here via Freie Presse-Plus.
• The AKSB reported on our research on their homepage in July.
• On June 24, 2019 we had a nice article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung under the headline "Neutrality is not an option".

• In April 2019, Katapult magazine used the figures from our political education monitor to create its interesting infographics. You can find them online here.

• On March 27, 2019 the TAZ wrote a nice article about emotions in political education and referred to our newly published book "Politische Bildung mit Gefühl".

• On March 12, 2019 the FAZ wrote a great article about our project "Starke Lehrer - Starke Schüler". A few funny facts are hidden in the text, but otherwise we are delighted with this article and the recognition of our work.