What needs to be done now in extracurricular political education!
A JoDDiD policy paper on the need for political action in democratic educational work
Stefan Breuer and David Jugel
Download: The policy paper can be downloaded here as a PDF.
Extracurricular political education creates spaces for democratic learning, negotiation and experience beyond curricular requirements. At the same time, it is under considerable pressure: it is expected to strengthen democratic values, moderate social conflicts, promote participation and react to anti-democratic developments - but often under structurally inadequate conditions.
Against this backdrop, the policy paper brings together key findings from the four JoDDiD studies on extracurricular civic education published to date and translates them into political needs for action. It is aimed at the state government, state parliament and other political stakeholders and shows which structural conditions must now be created so that democratic education can work reliably, effectively and sustainably.
Central areas of activity
The policy paper identifies four closely interlinked areas of activity:
- Expanding qualification and professionalization offers
Extracurricular civic education needs systematic qualification paths, reliable further training structures and better framework conditions for professional reflection, networking and professionalization. - Improve the funding and promotion of democratic education
What is needed are longer and more reliable funding periods, less bureaucracy, better working conditions and a funding logic that realistically takes into account relationship work, local anchoring and long-term impact. - Ensuring the impact and sustainability of democratic education
Democratic education work needs realistic, field-appropriate operating logics, a constructive evaluation culture and political framework conditions that enable sustainable development instead of short-term project logic. - Counteracting anti-democratic developments and protecting political education work
Projects and professionals need political backing, protective structures, support in dealing with attacks and specific training opportunities for dealing with anti-democratic positions and conflicts.
Purpose of the policy paper
The policy paper is intended as an impulse for an objective political debate on the future of extracurricular political education in Saxony. It makes it clear that educational work that promotes democracy is socially indispensable, but can only be effective if political decision-makers not only support it programmatically, but also secure it structurally.
Download: The policy paper can be downloaded as a PDF here.
Authors
© Tom Luckner
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
NameStefan Breuer Ma.Ed.
John-Dewey-Forschungsstelle für die Didaktik der Demokratie
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© Tom Luckner
Research Associate
NameDavid Jugel
John-Dewey-Forschungsstelle für die Didaktik der Demokratie
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