Institutions and organizations as learning environments for participation and democracy : opportunities, challenges, obstacles / Reingard Spannring, Wilfried Smidt, Christine Unterrainer, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spannring, Reingard, editor.

Smidt, Wilfried, editor.

Unterrainer, Christine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational behavior.

Democracy.

Democracy and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2022.

Summary:

This book discusses opportunities and limitations to democratic participation in institutions and organizations across the life course. It demonstrates that democratic participation is not something that is learned once and for all and applied in formal political settings, but something that is lived every day throughout life in various contexts. Institutions and organizations frame human lives and strongly determine the ability to participate and co-determine their communities. They are places for learning, deliberation and the development of the common good. The book conceptually and empirically analyses the potential of democratic participation within various institutions. The contributions range from early childhood institutions, schools, youth programs, workplaces, and vocational education to cultural organizations and nursing homes for the elderly. The book thereby provides a cross-sectional and interdisciplinary knowledge base to inspire future research and practical efforts to promote democratic participation within and across institutions around the world.

Contents:

Contributors

Chapter 1: Participation in organizations and institutions across the life course

PART I Early Childhood

Chapter 2: Agency and participation: A critique of the epistemological, psychological, pedagogical and ethical premises

Chapter 3

Democracy Education in German Early Childhood Education Institutions Empirical Research Results

PART II Middle Childhood

Chapter 4: Constructing the Neoliberal Citizen: An Ethnographic Investigation of Corporatized Practices in Education

Chapter 5: Democracy and civics participation through youth forums in schools reflections on practice

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

PART III Young Adulthood

Chapter 7: Democracy learning through participation in upper secondary education in schools and regulated company training

Chapter 8: Participation and identity development in a multicultural academic context in the higher education institutions: Palestinian-Arab social work students in Israel

Chapter 9:Youth on the Move? On the Transformation of Political Engagement in the Second Modernity

PART IV Adulthood

Chapter 10

Workplaces as learning environments: How participative practices in enterprises provide learning opportunities for employees democracy relevant orientations and behaviors

Chapter 11: Organization and Participation. Aspects of a Dialectical Relationship

PART V Advanced Adulthood and Old Age

Chapter 12: Participation and civic engagement in Scotland: the importance of contributions from older adults

Chapter 13

Democratic Care in Nursing Homes Responsive Evaluation to Mutually Learn about Good Care.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Institutions and organizations as learning environments for participation and democracy.

ISBN:

9783031179495

3031179498

OCLC:

1365112350

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.