Politische Bildung in Handlungsfeldern der Jugendarbeit

The project ‘Learning from and with each other. Teams from extra-curricular youth education and social pedagogy to strengthen civic education’ focused on reconstructing the professional understandings of youth work professionals and reflecting on the potentials and challenges of civic education in various fields of youth work.
The results of the academic research show that civic education in youth work is regarded as a low-threshold, subject-orientated and action-based practice. However, the structural challenges vary between the different fields of action: While a lack of time and resources is articulated as a challenge in open youth work, in extra-curricular youth education, the project logic makes it difficult to realise the demands of participant-oriented and longer-term educational practice. In addition, the narrative of an other political education was reconstructed in the research, which is outlined as content-orientated and high-threshold. It is also used as an explanatory figure to differentiate one's specific civic education practice in youth work.
Overall, the results reveal a differentiated picture of civic education that prioritises subject- and lifeworld-oriented approaches, while field-specific differences exist in the practices and formats.