Promoting active youth: evidence from Polish NGO’s civic education programme in Eastern Europe
| Autor: | Aleksandra Galus, Paulina Pospieszna |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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International relations
Economic growth media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Youth participation Development Democracy 0506 political science Eastern european Politics Development studies Political science Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Civic engagement 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Democracy promotion 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of International Relations and Development. 23:210-236 |
| ISSN: | 1581-1980 1408-6980 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41268-018-0134-4 |
| Popis: | Civic education, i.e. activities aimed to teach citizens of recipient countries basic values, knowledge, and skills relating to democracy, has become a popular form of promoting democracy by NGOs from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. This paper examines whether democracy promotion programmes, such as civic education, implemented by NGOs from Central and Eastern European countries towards young people in former post-communist countries affect participants’ civic engagement and political participation. We test the impact of one of the civic education programmes on young people from Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation. The analysis of the programme and the results of the survey conducted among the civic education programme’s former participants from 2004 to 2014 contribute to a better understanding how youth participation can be built through mechanism of knowledge created by outside actors. The paper reveals some potential of programmes focused on educating young people in diffusing democratic ideas and behaviour in the region; however, it also shows the limitations of methodology used to evaluate the impact of democracy promotion efforts. |
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