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Direct linkArens, A. Katrin; Watermann, Rainer – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The present study focuses on political efficacy in terms of students' competence self-perceptions related to the domain of politics. The investigation addresses the mean level development and longitudinal relations to outcome variables including gender differences. Drawing on a sample of N = 2,504 German students, political efficacy, along with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes
Peer reviewedMoldenhauer, Gebhard – European Education, 1991
Describes textbooks of both East and West Germany from 1949-56, 1957-62, 1963-69, and 1970 on. Discusses a shift in West German texts from intense antagonism during the Cold War to a more critical comparison by the 1980s. Compares East German text development that increased in hostility over time, viewing West Germany as a negative alternative to…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Communism, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
Hepburn, Mary A. – 1986
A broad survey of democratic political attitudes of United States and West German students was developed jointly by the Governmental Education Division of the Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia and the Bundeszentrale fur politische Bildung in Bonn. This survey sought to probe twelfth-year students' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Citizenship, Communism, Cross Cultural Studies
Peer reviewedWegner, Gregory P. – History of Education Quarterly, 1990
Recounts the dialogue between U. S. and Soviet members of the Allied Kommandatura Education Committee (AKEC) in post World War II Berlin regarding the formation of a new history curriculum for German youth. Concludes that the history curriculum accord represented a U.S.-Soviet desire to use schools as a means of denazifying Berlin youth. (SLM)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Download full textBorries, Bodo von; Lehmann, Rainer H. – 1992
A study compared the historical awareness of 2,000 East and West German children in the sixth, ninth, and twelfth grades. Because of differing school systems and the general design of the study, researchers analyzed ninth grade data. The study was conducted during the disintegration and reunification of Germany. Students from the two regions…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedHastings, William L.; Payne, Kenneth A. – Social Education, 1990
Investigates strength of national identity and degrees of democratic orientation among honors high school seniors taking advanced political science courses in 1986 in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. Finds West German students less tolerant of minority free speech, more fearful of consequences of dissent, and less politically…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement Programs, Cross Cultural Studies
