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This timely Research Handbook examines how the many facets of education can foster democratic competences. It reviews state-of-the-art research and identifies a number of under-explored issues in the field, highlighting the potential of educational reforms in improving democratic engagement across a wealth of demographics.

Internationally renowned contributors discuss the definition of democratic competences, the promotion of these competences beyond political engagement, and opportunities for reducing social and ethnic inequalities in civic learning. They address key challenges, including the gap between education policy and practical implementation, and the difficulties of measuring causality. Reflecting on examples from the development of citizenship education in the UK to the cultivation of social trust in China and Japan, this incisive Handbook presents innovative ways to overcome major obstacles to political efficacy, ultimately underscoring the effectiveness of participatory pedagogies in strengthening democratic capabilities.

Students and academics in citizenship education, education policy and politics, and social sciences more broadly will benefit from the novel perspectives presented in this Research Handbook. It is also an invaluable resource for educational professionals and policymakers seeking to use education as a tool for advancing political understanding.

This timely Research Handbook examines how the many facets of education can foster democratic competences. It reviews state-of-the-art research and identifies a number of under-explored issues in the field, highlighting the potential of educational reforms in improving democratic engagement across a wealth of demographics.

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?The Research Handbook on Education and Democracy offers a rich exploration of how education fosters democratic competencies and reduces civic inequalities by combining comprehensive literature reviews with original research. A must-read for educators, policymakers, and researchers committed to advancing democratic values through education.?

Table of Contents:

Contents
Introduction to Research Handbook on Education and Democracy xv
JAN GERMEN JANMAAT, DAVID KERR AND ANNE BERT
DIJKSTRAPART I WHAT ARE DEMOCRATIC COMPETENCES?
2 Educating democratic citizens? A collaborative theorisation of discourses
of democratic education 2
Edda Sant, Marta Da Costa, David Menendez Alvarez-Hevia and Jonas Thiel
3 Processes, influences and choices that impacted on the structure and
contents of the Council of Europe?s Reference Framework of Competences
for Democratic Culture 17
Martyn Barrett
4 Promoting citizenship competences for a resilient democracy: balancing
between central control and local variety 36
Geert ten Dam
5 The development of citizenship education in the United Kingdom: a
retrospective review from the mid-1990s to the present 53
David Kerr
6 Liberal democracy and Islamic education: a clash of civilisations or a clash
of ignorances? 69
Anil Khamis
PART II THE IMPACT OF EDUCATION ON DEMOCRATIC COMPETENCES
7 Understanding and promoting civic skills: toward an integrated conception
of civic competencies 89
Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Kelly Siegel Stechler and Nicole Faraci
8 The socialization effect of education on authoritarian-libertarian values 112
Hilma Lindskog and Mikael Persson
9 Citizenship education?s contribution to students? political efficacy: a
narrative review 123
Eva Kosberg
10 The roles of education in the formation of political actors 141
Nicolas P. Emler
11 Education and political participation revisited 159
Mikael Persson and Hilma Lindskog
12 Higher education and social trust: a comparative study 171
Jian Huang
13 Political trust among emerging citizens 190
Johanna Fee Ziemes
14 How an integrated approach to citizenship education can help schools
contribute to the citizenship competences of their students 209
Manja Coopmans and Geert ten Dam
15 Which teaching practices promote students? democracy learning? A
systematic review 226
Pontus Wallin, Maria Olson and Mikael Persson
16 Can progressive education cultivate democratic dispositions? 246
Steven Donbavand
17 How does formal mass education influence the political socialization of
youth into national, supranational, or global citizens? 260
Alexander W. Wiseman
18 Schools, citizenship education, and democratic dispositions among
European youth: a comparative analysis using ICCS 2016 data 288
Maria Magdalena Isac and Daniel Miranda
PART III EDUCATION AND INEQUALITIES IN DEMOCRATIC COMPETENCES
19 Civic education as a tool to mitigate social inequalities in civic outcomes: a
literature review 309
Daniel Miranda
20 Influences on girls? expectations of future civic engagement: the contextual
effects of gender using ICCS 2016 329
Alexander W. Wiseman and Rebecca B. Wiseman
21 Obstacles for equal citizenship education: the difficult role of citizenship
education policy 352
Dorien Sampermans and Lisa De Schaepmeester
22 Access to civic learning: gaps, trends and trade-offs 365
Isabel Kempner and Jan Germen Janmaat
23 The authoritarian adolescent: school/media trajectories in segregated
education 391
Michael McDevitt and Nicola J. Redl
PART IV ASSESSING CAUSALITY
24 Reconciling causal estimates of the effects of education on civic and
political participation 409
Daniel Hart and Thomas Dahan
25 Causality in the field of citizenship education 423
Laura E. M. Mulder
26 Educational reforms as natural experiments for studying the effects of
education on political participation, civic skills and civic values 436
Marcus Österman
PART V CONCLUSION
27 In retrospect: research into education and democracy in a broader
perspective 458
Jan Germen Janmaat, Anne Bert Dijkstra and David Kerr