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Biesta, Gert – European Educational Research Journal, 2009
How might European higher education contribute to the promotion and development of European citizenship? In this article, the author addresses this question through a critical discussion of the notions of "active citizenship" and "civic competence", which play a central role in current policy and research on the role of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizenship, Democracy, Citizenship Education
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Biesta, Gert; Cowell, Gillian – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
In this article we explore the potential of psychogeographic mapping for developing an understanding of community-as-enacted and discuss how this can help us to get a more nuanced sense of the dynamics of civic learning within communities of plurality and difference. We argue that civic learning has to do with the transformation of private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Learning Processes, Prosocial Behavior