1st Edition
Reconstructing Democracy and Citizenship Education Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe
1. De-Europeanization, populism and illiberalism: Young people and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz and Kerry J. Kennedy
Section 1: Democracy Status and Citizenship Engagement – Research Methods and Results
2. Measuring the status of democracy and citizenship activity: Survey development and trialing
Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz
3. Young people’s citizenship activity and perceptions of democracy status in Central-Eastern Europe: Sample selection and data analysis
Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz and Katinka Dancs
Section 2: Young People's Citizenship Engagement in Central and Eastern Europe
4. Do young people still need democracy in Poland? – Revisiting the question 30 years later
Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz
5. After 30 transitional years of democracy – How do young people participate in society and evaluate democracy in Hungary?
Katinka Dancs and László Kinyó
6. Citizenship activity and democracy perception among young Czechs whose parents ‘jingled keys’ during the ‘Velvet Revolution’
Nikola Doubková
7. Descriptive analysis of Estonian young adults’ evaluation of democracy and citizenship engagement
Kristi Kõiv
8. Young people in Latvia – Forgotten humanism in citizenship development
Sandra Rone and Mara Vidnere
9. The workdays and weekends of democracy in Lithuanian young adults’ calendar
Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė and Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz
10. Citizenship activity of young Ukrainians – Democracy and human rights challenges
Irina Bondarevskaya, Kateryna Bondar and Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz
Section 3: Framing the Future
11. Young people’s citizenship activity and education in the face of democracy’s retreat: What lessons have been learned from Central and Eastern Europe?
Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz
12. Democracy’s future in Central and Eastern Europe – Building coalitions, enhancing agency
Kerry J. Kennedy
Biography
Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz is a psychologist, Associate Professor at University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Head of Department of Clinical, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Science Faculty.
Kerry J. Kennedy is Professor Emeritus and Advisor (Academic Development) at The Education University of Hong Kong. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg.
