Reading material

A series of resources that the student teacher must study in this session and a series of additional resources for further study.

Compulsory reading list

  1. Westheimer & Kahne (2004). What kind of citizen? The politics of educating for democracy. American Educational Research Journal, 41, 237-269. What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy on JSTOR
  2. Council of Europe (2010). Charter for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education. Strasbourg: Council of Europe. Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education (coe.int)
  3. Guy-Evans, O. (2020). Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory. Simply Psychology. Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory | Simply Psychology

List for further reading

  1. Dahl, R. A. and Shapiro, I. (2015). On Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  2. Education International (2019). On Education and Democracy – 25 Lessons from the Teaching Profession. Brussels: EI. On Education & Democracy - 25 Lessons from the Teaching Profession by Education International - issuu
  3. Greenburg, E.S. (ed.) (2017). Political Socialization. London and New York: Routledge.
  4. Levitsky, S. and Ziblatt, D. (2018). How Democracies Die. New York: Broadways Books.
  5. Neundorf, A., Neimi, R.G. and Smets, K. (2016). The Compensation Effect of Civic Education on Political Engagement: How Civics Classes Make Up for Missed Parental Socialization. Political Behavior, 38, pp. 921-949.
  6. Sherrod, L.R., Torney-Purta, J. and Flanagan, C.A. (eds.) (2010). Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement of Youth. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons.
  7. Snyder, T. (2017). On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. New York: Crown.