Explaining Political Apathy in German Civic Education Textbooks

Autor/in	Wohnig, Alexander
Titel	Explaining Political Apathy in German Civic Education Textbooks
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 10 (2018) 2, S.20-38 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2041-6938
Schlagwörter	Civics; Citizen Participation; Political Attitudes; Psychological Patterns; Secondary School Students; Political Science; Textbooks; Content Analysis; Foreign Countries; Critical Thinking; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatsbürgerkunde; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Sekundarschüler; Staatslehre; Politikwissenschaft; Politische Wissenschaft; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Inhaltsanalyse; Ausland; Kritisches Denken; Deutschland
Abstract	Since the 1990s, political apathy among young people has been a recurrent issue in political science. This article examines, on the basis of a survey of the current debate about political apathy in Germany and an analysis of civic education textbooks for the lower secondary level in Baden-Wu¨rttemberg, how contemporary German textbooks reflect young people's interest in politics. This article will show that, while political apathy in textbooks can be explained as the result of either an individual deficit on the part of the reader or a structuralist deficit of the political system, the latter explanation is more likely to encourage critical political thinking among young people in Germany. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01