622018 VO Fundamentals of Political Education
winter semester 2021/2022 | Last update: 24.04.2023 | Place course on memo listAcquisition of basic knowledge for the understanding and analysis of issues in civic education, politics and society
Definitions of politics and democracy; criteria for the understanding of political systems (especially Austria’s political system; political system of the European Union); basics of political communication and international politics; human rights politics; extremism. Introduction to the didactics of teaching politics.
Presentation and discussion
Written exam
Gärtner, R. (2018). Basiswissen Politische Bildung (2. aktual. Aufl.). Wien: new academic press.
Hellmuth, T. & Klepp, C. (2010). Politische Bildung. Geschichte – Modelle – Praxisbeispiele. Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau Verlag 2010.
Pelinka, A. & Rosenberger, S. (2007). Österreichische Politik. Grundlagen, Strukturen, Trends (3. aktual. Aufl.) Wuv Universitaets Verlag
Sander, W. (Hrsg.). (2014). Handbuch politische Bildung. Studienausgabe (4. Aufl.). Schwalbach/Ts.: Wochenschau Verlag.
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