Die Ausbreitung einer rechten Jugendkultur in Deutschland

Edelstein, Wolfgang

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“…According to the social psychologists Frey and Rez (2002), collective loss of a sense of control accounts for loss of faith in the democratic political process leading, in the 1920s and among marginalised youth today, to the rise of fascist and neo‐Nazi ideologies that defer control to authoritarian leaders. The German novelist Anna Seghers in ‘A man becomes Nazi’ (Ein Mensch wird Nazi, 1977) gave a memorable account of the unlearning of democratic dispositions under these conditions which is a warning against similar processes that confront us today with the rising appeal of antidemocratic movements and right‐wing extremism among youth (Bromba & Edelstein, 2001; Edelstein, 2002; 2005). Without the experience of democratic and inclusive ways of dealing with conflict and solving problems cooperatively, violent responses to increasing complexity and the collateral loss of control may again be the order of the day.…”

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Education for Democracy: reasons and strategies

Edelstein

2011

Euro J of Education

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The Present Crisis Calls for a Democratic SchoolA democratic school is not a luxury. Learning democracy is not just an extension of the serious business of learning for life. It is the serious business of learning for life and, as such, it must be a central goal of education in school.e jed_1463 127.. 137 The importance of learning democracy in school is linked to the present crisis, a crisis that presents the system in which we live with perilous challenges and risks, for which both governments and citizens in general are ill prepared. Beyond the recent crisis of the financial system that determines the present social and economic experience and the political disillusionment of millions worldwide, political scientists such as Herfried Münkler in Germany (Münkler & Wassermann 2008) and Colin Crouch in England (2004) have identified serious threats to the very foundations and basic components of democratic systems: the corrosion, as Münkler calls it, of the sociomoral resources of democracy. Among the universal and large scale processes that threaten to undermine these resources, he identifies individualism which threatens the social bond between people in relationships of reciprocal responsibility by the pervasive resurgence of selfinterest as the almost universally justified major motive for action. The second process that threatens the foundations of democracy according to Münkler is globalisation, because, with globalisation, policies and political decisions under democratic control within state boundaries have come to depend on highly complex transactions of international actors beyond democratic control. The development of a 'security (or surveillance) state' in response to the threat of international terrorism is but one salient feature of a process where the quest for state security claims obedience to authority rather than democratic self regulation. An even greater challenge is the ecological crisis crystallising in the issue of climate change, with the Copenhagen meeting in December 2009 of representatives of almost all the world's states being a paradigmatic example of failure to control transnational processes. That failure demonstrates, much as other endeavours to regulate recent crises have shown, that even international organisations and alliances are hard put to control critical processes and find politically negotiated solutions for them. The ecological crisis thus poses a threat of global chaos and ensuing dictatorial regulatory powers to face the crisis rather than democratic forms of regulation through negotiation supported by enlightened citizens.Colin Crouch (2004), in his analysis of what he calls post-democracy, pinpoints the erosion of trust in governmental institutions and the decay of the basic regulatory principles of equality, justice and fairness that are essential to democratic political empowerment which is increasingly devalued and dominated by the new economic and financial elites who redefine the rules and practices of governance worldwide in their favour.To the risk factors...

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Section: The Present Crisis Calls For a Democratic Schoolmentioning

confidence: 99%