Building Democratic Citizenship: Civic Education, Inequality, and Engagement

Building Democratic Citizenship: Civic Education, Inequality, and Engagement

This virtual symposium brings together recent research on youth civic development and civic education, spanning classroom practices, political socialization, and emerging challenges such as climate change. Together, the contributions explore how young people can be prepared for informed and equitable civic participation in a changing world.

The event features keynote talks by Prof. Connie Flanagan (University of Wisconsin-Madison), who will talk about how the field of youth political development has evolved over the past decades and looks at how younger generations can be prepared to be civic actors in the face of the climate crisis, followed by short spotlights by Dr. Diego Carrasco (Universidad Católica de Chile) and Ass. Prof. Joke Matthieu (University of Antwerp), as well as an insight into CERL, given by Dr. Pascal Alscher (TU Dortmund) and Dr. Daniel Deimel (University of Duisburg-Essen).

The virtual symposium is hosted by the Civic Education Research Lab (CERL), which focuses on advancing research on civic education and political socialisation through secondary data analyses. CERL aims to develop innovative research approaches, increase the visibility of civic education research, and foster collaboration among national and international scholars.

CERL is funded by the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, an institution of the UA Ruhr Research Alliance.