Institutions and organizations as learning environments for participation and democracy: opportunities, challenges, obstacles

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Participation in Organizations and Institutions Across the Life Course -- 1.1 The Meaning of Participation -- 1.2 Participation and Life Course -- 1.2.1 Lifelong and Life-Wide Participation -- 1.2.2 Life-Course Regimes and Institutions -- 1.3 Challenges to Participation -- 1.4 Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: Early Childhood -- Chapter 2: Agency and Participation: A Critique of the Epistemological, Psychological, Pedagogical, and Ethical Premises -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Epistemological Critique of the Concept of Agency -- 2.3 Constraints from a Developmental Psychology Point of View -- 2.4 Critique of the Agency Concept in Educational Theory -- 2.5 Ethical Issues Related to Child Agency -- 2.6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Democracy Education in German Early Childhood Education Institutions: Empirical Research Results -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Theoretical Assumptions of the Research Project -- 3.3 Research Design -- 3.4 Results I: Participation in the Light of Basic Tensions Between Deliberative Democracy and Democracy of the Experts -- 3.5 Results II: Children's Democratic Participation -- 3.6 Results III: Children's Satisfaction with Democratic Processes -- 3.7 Summary -- 3.8 Our Study Discussed from an International Research Perspective -- References -- Part II: Middle Childhood -- Chapter 4: Constructing the Neoliberal Citizen: An Ethnographic Investigation of Corporatized Practices in Education -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Power and Principles of Schools Serving the Poor -- 4.3 Democratic Citizenship, Charter Schools, and Social Justice -- 4.4 Neoliberal Citizenship and Schooling for Disadvantaged Populations -- 4.5 Charter School Management Organizations (CMOs): Cultures of Accountability and Performativity -- 4.6 Institutional Practices and Constructing the Neoliberal Citizen.