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What is civil society and who represents civil society at the IGF? An analysis of civil society typologies in Internet governance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
For 15 years, the UN-mandated Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has brought different stakeholder groups together to engage in debate and discussion on public policy issues relevant to Internet Governance, but who are the ‘civil society’ that is treated as one of the cornerstones of the IGF? This paper aims to provide two contributions to discussions on norm entrepreneurship in internet governance. First, it aims to contribute to the growing ...
Civic Engagement of Adolescents. A quantitative study of the relation between citizenship education, democratic attitudes, and political participation. KU Leuven
In western democracies, schools are expected to contribute to the establishment and maintenance of democratic citizenship. Through citizenship education, schools aim to stimulate the development of civic knowledge, skills and attitudes. This dissertation aims to contribute to the existing literature by exploring the different ways in which citizenship education can effectively stimulate civic engagement in adolescence. The dissertation consists ...
The role of multi-platform news consumption in explaining civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A communication mediation approach Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
This study employs the orientation-stimulus-reasoning-orientation-response (O-S-R-O-R) framework to examine how multi-platform news consumption is associated with civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic (offline and via social media) and how this relation is mediated by civic talk and civic attitudes. A survey was administered to 1500 adults in Belgium. Results from structural equation modelling indicate how civic talk with weak ties is ...
Back on track? How civic learning opportunities widen the political knowledge gap in a tracked education system KU Leuven
This article examines how different civic learning opportunities relate to students’ political knowledge in different school tracks. Existing studies have found that citizenship teaching can not only enhance overall levels of civic outcomes but also mitigate inequalities. However, educational achievement studies emphasize the risk of a tracked school context exacerbating the general knowledge gap. Combining these findings, we do not know whether ...
Civic Education in Europe: Comparative Policy Perspectives from the Netherlands, Belgium and France KU Leuven
In recent years, various policy initiatives have been implemented to strengthen the importance of civic education in European countries. The Council of Europe even proclaimed 2005 to be the "European Year of Citizenship through Education," in an effort to harmonize the efforts of its member states. The Council also claimed that European liberal democracies share a specific political culture that would benefit from a harmonized approach to civic ...
The effects of classroom socioeconomic composition on student's civic knowledge in Chile Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven
In Chile, the influence of the socioeconomic make-up of classrooms on achievement has been extensively studied in mathematics and language, but less in currently important non-traditional subjects such as civic knowledge. This paper analyses the effects of the socioeconomic composition of classrooms on students civic knowledge achievement in Chile, using the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2009 and a multilevel methodology. ...
The Effects of Civic Education on Political Knowledge. A Two Year Panel Survey among Belgian Adolescents KU Leuven
Traditionally political knowledge was regarded as an important potential outcome for civic education efforts. Most of the currently available research, however, tends to focus on non-cognitive goals, despite the fact that studies repeatedly have shown that political knowledge is an important resource for enlightened and engaged citizenship. In this article, we investigate whether civic education efforts at school contribute to political ...
The Political Socialization of Adolescents in Canada: Differential Effects of Civic Education on Visible Minorities KU Leuven
It is assumed that civic education has persistent effects on political attitudes and behaviours of young citizens. There is no consensus, however, on what kind of efforts have the strongest effects on specific outcomes, like political knowledge and intended political participation. In some of the older literature, it has been shown that effects of civic education are stronger for children from a visible minority background. This article takes up ...
FixMyStreet Brussels: Socio-Demographic Inequality in Crowdsourced Civic Participation KU Leuven
FixMyStreet (FMS) is a web-based civic participation platform that allows citizens to report environmental defects like potholes and damaged pavements to the government. In this paper, we examine the use of FMS in Brussels, the capital city of Belgium. Analyzing a total of 30,041 reports since its inception in 2013, we demonstrate how civic participation on FMS varies between the ethnically diverse districts in Brussels. We compare FMS usage to ...