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International activities at the IFS
The connection to the international scientific community is of great strategic importance for the IFS. Thus, the IFS is anchored in top national and international research. Furthermore, scientists regularly publish their research results in English-language journals or present them at international conferences. In addition, the institute regularly hosts visiting scholars; on the one hand, staff members spend research stays abroad, and on the other hand, guest lecturers from abroad come to the institute for research stays, project exchanges or guest lectures. Finally, the area of teaching at the institute is also characterized by its international orientation, as there are, for example, teaching concepts for the implementation of intercultural education in teacher training.
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International Virtual Symposium on Political Education
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More than 80 international researchers took part in the virtual symposium on “Building Democratic Citizenship: Civic Education, Inequality, and Engagement” on March 4. This virtual symposium brought together recent research on youth civic development and civic education, spanning classroom practices, political socialisation, and emerging challenges such as climate change. The contributions explore how young people can be prepared for informed and equitable civic participation in a changing world.
The event features a keynote talk by Connie Flanagan (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) who will talk about how the field of youth political development has evolved over the past decades, looking at how younger generations can be prepared to be civic actors in the face of the climate crisis. Short spotlight talks by Diego Carrasco (Universidad Católica de Chile) and Joke Matthieu (University of Antwerp, Belgium) will follow. Additionally, Pascal Alscher (IFS) and Daniel Deimel (University of Duisburg-Essen) will give insights into the research of the Civic Education Research Lab (CERL).
The virtual symposium is hosted by the Civic Education Research Lab (CERL), which focuses on advancing research on civic education and political socialisation through secondary data analyses. Dr Pascal Alscher and Dr Elisabeth Graf of the Center for Research on Education and School Development are part of CERL.CERL is a working group funded by the PostdocLab programme of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, part of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr).