Publisher's Synopsis
Contributors
Chapter 1
Participation in organizations and institutions across the life course
Reingard Spannring, Christine Unterrainer, and Wilfried Smidt
PART I Early Childhood
Chapter 2
Agency and participation: A critique of the epistemological, psychological, pedagogical and ethical premises
Elmar Drieschner, and Wilfried Smidt
Chapter 3
Democracy Education in German Early Childhood Education Institutions - Empirical Research Results
Elisabeth Richter, Teresa Lehmann, and Benedikt Sturzenhecker
PART II Middle Childhood
Chapter 4
Constructing the Neoliberal Citizen: An Ethnographic Investigation of Corporatized Practices in Education
Garth Stahl
Chapter 5
Democracy and civics participation through youth forums in schools - reflections on practice
Anna Jarkiewicz and Joanna Leek
Chapter 6
Creating "Thinking Pro" for High School Teachers and Students: Two cases of a local-news-driven curriculum in English and Social Studies classrooms
Florian C. Feucht, M. Kate Michaelson, Regina Rotshtein, Sarah Bargardi, Rebecca Bush, and Julia McBride
PART III Young Adulthood
Chapter 7
Democracy learning through participation in upper secondary education in schools and regulated company training
Gabriela Maria Höhns
Chapter 8
Participation and identity development in a multicultural academic context in the higher education institutions: Palestinian-Arab social work students in Israel
Romain Jammal-Abboud
Chapter 9
Youth on the Move? On the Transformation of Political Engagement in the Second Modernity
Paul Eisewicht and Nico Steinmann
PART IV Adulthood
Chapter 10
Workplaces as learning environments: How participative practices in enterprises provide learning opportunities for employees' democracy relevant orientations and behaviors
Christine Unterrainer, Wolfgang G. Weber, Thomas Höge and
Bettina Lampert
Chapter 11
Organization and Participation. Aspects of a Dialectical Relationship
Thomas Wendt and Sebastian Manhart
PART V Advanced Adulthood and Old Age
Chapter 12
Participation and civic engagement in Scotland: the importance of contributions from older adults
Lorna J. Philip, Andrew Maclaren, Claire Wallace, and Krzysztof Adamczyk
Chapter 13
Democratic Care in Nursing Homes
Responsive Evaluation to Mutually Learn about Good Care
Marleen D.W. Dohmen, Johanna M. Huijg, Susan M.W. Woelders, and Tineke A. Abma
