Civic Learning, Democratic Citizenship and the Public Sphere

1. Learning in Public Places: Civic Learning for the Twenty-First Century
Gert Biesta

Part I. 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, Lieve Bradt

5. Subjectificating Socialisation for the Common Good: The Case for a Democratic Offensive in Upbringing and Education
Micha Winter

Part II. Methodology

6. Mapping Children’s Presence in the Neighbourhood
Sven Visscher

7. Research as Response: Methodological Reflections
Carmen Mathijssen, Danny Wildemeersch

8. Action Research and Democracy
Rudi Roose, Maria Bouverne-De Bie, Griet Roets

9. Educational Research on Community Building Practices: From Evaluation to Witnessing
Peter Reyskens, Joke Vandenabeele

Part III. 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, Jan Peeters

12. Disturbing Pedagogies in Special Youth Care
Karel Vos

13. Theorising Underlying Notions of Citizenship in the Dynamics of Learning in Public Policy Units
Griet Roets, Rudi Roose

14. Education and Sustainability Issues: An Analysis of Publics-in-the-Making
Katrien Poeck, Joke Vandenabeele

Keywords: Education, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, International and Comparative Education