Benchmarking and democratic citizenship education for schools

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Abstract

The intention of democratic citizenship education in schools is to educate young people in the knowledge, skills and values required to become active citizens in a modern democracy. In this chapter democratic citizenship education relates to school-based activities and thus benchmarking relates to the performance of school students in those activities which are usually located under the name of civic education.

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  1. 1.Faculty of Education and Social WorkThe University of SydneySydney

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