Role of Political Education and Learning for Gender Mainstreaming Implementation

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Role of Political Education and Learning for
Gender Mainstreaming Implementation

• Background, Institutions, Legitimation and Aims
  of Political Education in Germany

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Historical Background

• Assumption after nationalsocalist dictatorship,
  holocaust and World War II the establishment of
  democratic structures in Germany would not be
  sufficient. The introduction of a democratic
  system should be accompanied by efforts in
  education.
• Starting point re-education

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Institutions Providing Political Education in
Germany

• Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb)(founded
  in 1952 To spread the democratic and european
  thought)
• Agencies of Federal States (independent from
  federal agency in the responsibility of the
  federal states)

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Institutions Providing Political Education in
Germany

• Churches
• Trade Unions
• Political Foundations
• Institutions established by social movements
• womens movement
• peace movement
• ecological movement etc.
• Volkhighschools
• Initiatives etc.

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Responsibility of the State

• Supporting a variety of pluralistic offersby
  providing financial support (i.e. by the federal
  agency and agencies of the federal states)
• Providing seminars and material(by federal agency
  and agencies of the federal states)
• to multipliers of other institutions
• to the citizens

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Guiding Principles of Public Political Education

• Controversity
• Prohibition of manipulation
• Orientation to the subject

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Aims and Legitimation of Political Education

• democracy can not be taken for granted
• democracy needs responsible, autonomous,
  politically mature and active citizens.
• democratic societies do not necessarily produce
  responsible, autonomous, politically mature and
  active citizens.

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Competences of Active Citizens

• cognitive competences
• process oriented competences
• Habitual Competences

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Politically Mature Citizens

• competent observer
• intervening citizen
• active citizen

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Reasons for Increasing Importance of Political
Education

• Recent international crises
• European Processes
• European Convention
• Europe as a region of LLL

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Position of Educational Tools in the Framework of
Political/Civic Education

• issue of GM and GMI is a political issue
• skills/abilities that empower to participate
• skills/abilities that rise understanding for
  political context
• Promotion of values/changing of mentality
• Relation Gender-Power