"Intention is not method, belief is not evidence": Civic Education and Prevention with Former Right-Wing Extremists in German Schools

by Dr. Antje Gansewig

Overview

For over 20 years, school interventions involving former right-wing extremists have been popular in Germany. In practice, they are advertised and conducted as both civic education and extremism prevention. This book uses an evidence-based and interdisciplinary approach to examine the potentials and challenges of this format. It provides a thematic embedding of German application, a comprehensive review of attributed impact assumptions and the state of related research. Furthermore, this research offers highly valuable, unique and comprehensive insights based on empirical evidence. It thus contributes to a better understanding of the format and its complexity. Overall, the findings give no clear indication that the involvement of former right-wing extremists in schools initiate civic education processes or prevent political extremism. Rather, the investigation found fundamental needs for additional research, modification, and sensitization. In this vein, this book makes a pioneer contribution to quality assurance and evaluation research in civic education and extremism prevention.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783658397753
Publisher:	Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Publication date:	01/21/2023
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	171
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Antje Gansewig worked in the fields of political extremism, crime prevention and civic education for several state institutions (e.g., State Prevention Council Schleswig-Holstein, National Center for Crime Prevention, Federal Agency for Civic Education). Currently, she is a researcher at the University of Oldenburg, Institute for Social Sciences, Department for Political Education.

Table of Contents

Structure of the book.- Synopsis.