{"id":13105,"date":"2018-04-27T15:49:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wannseeforum.de\/?p=13105"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:36:35","slug":"politische-bildung-im-adb-fuer-vielfalt-und-gegen-ausgrenzung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wannseeforum.de\/en\/politische-bildung-im-adb-fuer-vielfalt-und-gegen-ausgrenzung\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic education at the AdB promotes diversity and combats exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At its meeting on April 25, 2018, the AdB board adopted a position paper advocating for civic education that promotes diversity and opposes exclusion. This position paper is based on extensive discussion within the association and input from the AdB Youth Education Commission. The position paper is presented in full below:<\/p>\n

Civic education is educational work that engages with the political sphere \u2013 that is, with matters concerning the community. Its task is to clarify, based on the interests and experiences of the participants, the connections between their own life situation and societal conditions, and to demonstrate opportunities for participation. It is guided by the central categories of politics: conflict, interest, power, consensus, domination, and the formation of will. This also includes making privileges, discrimination, and exclusion visible in order to overcome them.<\/p>\n

Especially given Germany's past\u2014the Nazi seizure of power based on a democratic constitution, the experience of totalitarian rule and genocide\u2014a careful examination of current developments is essential. With the Basic Law of 1949, the opening of society after 1968, and the liberation from an authoritarian regime in 1989, our society has further developed and visibly lived its democratic values. In light of current social and political developments in Europe and the world, a well-defined civic education is needed that enables participants to understand, reflect on, and analyze social developments and structures, both past and present, in order to situate themselves within society and strengthen their own capacity for action.<\/p>\n

Democracy, participation and human rights form the frame of reference for this emancipatory, participatory civic education.<\/p>\n

In our understanding of civic education, democracy must not only be a form of government and society, but also a way of life. Civic education must therefore offer spaces where democratic negotiation processes and the handling of conflicts can be practiced and reflected upon. In addition to the competence to effectively represent one's own interests and viewpoints, it is also important to foster a willingness to consider other positions and, if necessary, to reach compromises.<\/p>\n

Discrimination based on physical or mental disabilities, gender, sexual identity, language, appearance, age, origin, social status, or religious or political beliefs is incompatible with our understanding of civic education. Resolutely opposing it is the mission of civic education and thus of all those active in it.<\/p>\n

We, the AdB and its member institutions,<\/p>\n