Active Citizenship Learning in Higher Education

Citizenship participation has increasingly become a core concern for universities. The article will firstly present the task of a third mission. In addition, and as a comparison to the familiar concepts, service learning and civic engagement, the concept active citizenship learning, will be introdu...

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Main Author: Ingrid Geier
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Forum Neue Medien in der Lehre Austria 2018-06-01
Series:Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung
Online Access:https://www.zfhe.at/index.php/zfhe/article/view/1130
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description Citizenship participation has increasingly become a core concern for universities. The article will firstly present the task of a third mission. In addition, and as a comparison to the familiar concepts, service learning and civic engagement, the concept active citizenship learning, will be introduced. This is a higher education didactics concept in which academic learning and civic involvement complement one another. A change of perspective and a deeper awareness of democracy is being sought. Ideally, this can be achieved by becoming acquainted with and actively involved in, civil society.
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spelling doaj.art-0eb49b566f7f49e790bd4c653fa4336c2023-09-06T07:30:37ZdeuForum Neue Medien in der Lehre AustriaZeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung2219-69942018-06-0113210.3217/zfhe-13-02/10Active Citizenship Learning in Higher EducationIngrid Geier Citizenship participation has increasingly become a core concern for universities. The article will firstly present the task of a third mission. In addition, and as a comparison to the familiar concepts, service learning and civic engagement, the concept active citizenship learning, will be introduced. This is a higher education didactics concept in which academic learning and civic involvement complement one another. A change of perspective and a deeper awareness of democracy is being sought. Ideally, this can be achieved by becoming acquainted with and actively involved in, civil society. https://www.zfhe.at/index.php/zfhe/article/view/1130
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