The Effects of Teaching Democracy

• In Event: Civic Engagement Pedagogy Across the Globe

Abstract

This paper presents the process of a real-life experiment of teaching “Democracy” to students in high schools and universities in Greece and investigates the effect of such an intervention to the way and the extent they mobilized politically. The experiment also included field research with questionnaires to the participants. The collected data were analyzed with advanced multivariate quantitative methods and reveal strong correlations between civic education and enhancement of the political mobilization of the participants.

Authors

• Georgia Panagiotidou

• Theodore Chadjipadelis, Aristotle University Thessaloniki