Introduction: Civic learning, democratic citizenship and the public sphere
Gert Biesta, Maria De Bie and Danny Wildemeersch.
1. Learning in public places
Gert Biesta
SECTION 1: 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 and Lieve Brad
5. Subjectificating socialization for the common good: The case for a democratic offensive in upbringing and education
Micha de Winter
SECTION 2: METHODOLOGY.
6. Mapping children’s presence in the neighbourhood
Sven De Visscher
7. Research as response: Methodological reflections
Carmen Mathijssen and Danny Wildemeersch
8. Action research and democracy
Rudi Roose, Maria Bouverne-De Bie and Griet Roets
9. Educational research on community building practices: From evaluation to witnessing
Peter Reyskens and Joke Vandenabeele
SECTION 3: 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 and Jan Peeters
12. Disturbing pedagogies in Special Youth Care
Karel De Vos
13. Theorizing underlying notions of citizenship in the dynamics of learning in public policy units
Griet Roets and Rudi Roose
14. Education and sustainability issues: an analysis of publics-in-the-making
Katrien Van Poeck and Joke Vandenabeeld
Index.
