Strengthening Responsible Democratic Citizenship: Conceptual and Practical Perspectives

Abstract

The panel will focus on the opportunities to strengthen contemporary responsible democratic citizenship, that is the capacity of citizens to act as autonomous democratic agents in a responsible way. This has become an increasingly urgent need due to several recent and ongoing crises in Europe. The challenges such as mediatization, technocratization, disenchantment, radicalization, populism, securitization, digitalization, illiberalism and others (e.g. Hay 2007, Papadopoulos 2013, Guillaume, Huysmans 2013, Moffitt 2016, Bigo, Isin, Ruppert 2019, Schäfer, Zürn 2021, Sajo, Uitz, Holmes 2021) put pressures both on the democratic system and citizens. We will discuss the conceptual and practical perspectives and innovative techniques supporting responsible democratic citizenship with a special attention on citizenship education. This will be based on but not limited to the EU Horizon Europe Democrat project that aims to strengthen liberal democracy in the European Union by supporting its embedding and sustainability through participatory redesign and implementation of innovative and context-sensitive Education for Responsible Democratic Citizenship curricula and learning methods. Both content and process related aspects can support the development of citizens as reflexive, autonomous and constructive democratic agents and address the challenges outlined above.

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