2020
DOI: 10.1177/1746197919900153
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Does political participation in adolescence promote knowledge acquisition and active citizenship?

Abstract: Political education in school is aimed at preparing adolescents for their role as citizens, which comprises political participation as well as political knowledge. While it is generally agreed that basic knowledge about politics is a prerequisite to participation, the specific link between knowledge and participation is left unclear in normative theories of democracy and didactic approaches of political education. A study with 1324 German ninth graders tries to clarify the relationship between the two construc… Show more

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“…The implications of which could be due to a traditional approach to citizenship teaching and a lack of digital education in classrooms or including the use of social media in civics education or for social justice issues. These results partially support with the findings of Grobshäuser and Weißeno (2021) who claim that participation experience has no effect on pupils' political knowledge and the willingness to participate in politics in the future. However, the framing of citizenship education and pedagogical activities may have a possible influence on how civic engagement and citizenship is exercised, which in turn, would contradict Maher and Earl (2019) regarding the digitalization of this field (De-la-Garza-Montemayor et al, 2019).…”
Section: Results Regarding Socio-civic Skills Development and The Par...supporting
confidence: 89%
“…The implications of which could be due to a traditional approach to citizenship teaching and a lack of digital education in classrooms or including the use of social media in civics education or for social justice issues. These results partially support with the findings of Grobshäuser and Weißeno (2021) who claim that participation experience has no effect on pupils' political knowledge and the willingness to participate in politics in the future. However, the framing of citizenship education and pedagogical activities may have a possible influence on how civic engagement and citizenship is exercised, which in turn, would contradict Maher and Earl (2019) regarding the digitalization of this field (De-la-Garza-Montemayor et al, 2019).…”
Section: Results Regarding Socio-civic Skills Development and The Par...supporting
confidence: 89%
“…Unfortunately, research in the U.S. suggests that youth have difficulties evaluating online information and their sources (McGrew et al, 2018). Though recent research indicates that (offline) political participation might not increase citizens' levels of political knowledge (Grobshäuser and Weißeno, 2020;Reichert and Print, 2019), whether that is also true for online forms of political participation and how participatory experiences more broadly relate to information literacy remains an open question.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Context specificity is equally applicable to achievement motivation. It is domain-specific, and in civics lessons it is related to political knowledge, the capacity for political action and political judgement (Grobshäuser and Weisseno, 2021; Weisseno and Weisseno, 2021). Achievement in the classroom can be defined as political knowledge as well as the ability to present an argument and make a judgement (Weisseno, 2020: 501).…”
Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Context specificity is equally applicable to achievement motivation. It is domain-specific, and in civics lessons it is related to political knowledge, the capacity for political action and political judgement (Grobshäuser and Weisseno, 2021; Weisseno and Weisseno, 2021).…”
Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning
confidence: 99%