Civic Learning, Democratic Citizenship and the Public Sphere

Introduction: Civic learning, democratic citizenship and the public sphere; Gert Biesta, Maria De Bie and Danny Wildemeersch.- 1. Learning in public places; Gert Biesta.- SECTION 1: THEORY.- 2. Displacing concepts of social learning and democratic citizenship; Danny Wildemeersch.- 3. Social services and their educational mandate in the modern nation state; Walter Lorenz.- 4. Learning Democracy in Social Work; Maria Bouverne-De Bie, Rudi Roose, Filip Coussée and Lieve Bradt.- 5. Subjectificating socialization for the common good: The case for a democratic offensive in upbringing and education; Micha de Winter.- SECTION 2: METHODOLOGY.- 6. Mapping children’s presence in the neighbourhood; Sven De Visscher.- 7. Research as response: Methodological reflections; Carmen Mathijssen and Danny Wildemeersch.- 8. Action research and democracy; Rudi Roose, Maria Bouverne-De Bie and Griet Roets.- 9. Educational research on community building practices: From evaluation to witnessing; Peter Reyskens and Joke Vandenabeele.- SECTION 3: RESEARCH.- 10. When the wrong people speak. On bullying as a political problem for democratisation in schools; Carl Anders Säfström.- 11. Democratic experimentation in early childhood education; Michel Vandenbroeck and Jan Peeters.- 12. Disturbing pedagogies in Special Youth Care; Karel De Vos.- 13. Theorizing underlying notions of citizenship in the dynamics of learning in public policy units; Griet Roets and Rudi Roose.- 14. Education and sustainability issues: an analysis of publics-in-the-making; Katrien Van Poeck and Joke Vandenabeele. Index.