Our Europe for All – Civic engagement among young European citizens in Berlin and Brandenburg

Februar 9, 2022Berlin,community of values,deliberation,Erasmus+,European identity,European Parlement,European Union,political participation,Youth dialogue

Charles Lindblom on the Market, Elites, Inequality and our Inability to Think Clear

Juni 22, 2021business,Charles Lindblom,competition of ideas,elites,impairment,incrementalism,manipulation,market system,mutual adjustment,pluralism,social progress

Planning a future together: Could Eisenhüttenstadt use some deliberative democracy?

Juni 1, 2021city planning,deliberation,dying towns,Eisenhüttenstadt,Potsdam

Loneliness, unhappiness, consumerism and its political consequences: observations and predictions of Robert E. Lane

März 22, 2021consumerism,depression,happiness,Loneliness,market liberalism,Robert E. Lane,social cohesion,well-being

Opportunists in Political Education for Democracy, Freedom and Respect: The Long Road of Democratization.

Dezember 18, 2020Brandenburg,democratization,German Democratic Republic,Martina Weyrauch,political education,press,Stasi

Deliberating Discrimination, Antisemitism, Racism, Sexism, Homophobia in Volatile Schools in Hamburg

März 4, 2020antisemitism,commemoration,deliberation,discrimination,Euthanasia killings,homophobia,National Socialism,political education,racism,sexism

On discussing Gender Equality in Germany: Was will eine Frau eigentlich?

September 23, 2019definition of work,deliberation,discrimination,female managers,gender equality,male professions,sexism,socialization,stress society

Angry, but not bad people on the Brandenburg countryside

Juni 5, 2019AfD,Brandenburg,Brexit,European Union,gender equality,humiliation,populism,radicalization,unemployed

Talking straight to youngsters in Hamburg

Mai 7, 2019adolescents,deliberation,feedback deliberation,gender equality,homophobia,political education,racism

“People have to work!” A Deliberation at a Secondary School in Brandenburg

März 13, 2019adolescents,basic income,deliberation,homosexuality,political education,Schule mit Courage

A Deliberative Workshop with Chechen

März 6, 2019Chechnya,deliberation,gender equality,Islam,Kadyrov,masculinity,refugees,religion

Deliberating homosexuality: some empirical observations and analyses

Februar 28, 2019conversion therapy,deliberation,discrimination,homophobia,homosexuality,masculinity,respect

The Rewards from Deliberation: Researching the Feedback of our Workshops

Januar 23, 2019deliberation,feedback deliberation,refugees,research on deliberation

Countering Radicalization: What the Research on Deliberation and Radicalization Teaches us

Oktober 7, 2018deliberation,deradicalization,Fishkin,Gesellschaft Extrem,identity,pluralism,research on deliberation,research on radicalization

Challenging extreme claims for truth: How to deliberate the open, pluralist society with monist thinkers

Juni 12, 2018deliberation,extremism,indifference,monism,pluralism,relativism,tolerance

How to deliberate fundamental values? Notes from Brandenburg on our approach.

Februar 20, 2018deliberation,effects of deliberation,how to deliberate,integration,pluralism,refugees,relativism,respect,values

How Postmodernism Advanced Populism: An Inside Story From The Netherlands

Dezember 21, 2017avantgardism,Bourdieu,columnists,cultural participation,cultural politics,freedom of the arts,populism,postmodernism,relativism,Wilders

Deliberation Against Populism: Reconnecting Radicalizing Citizens In East Germany & Elsewhere

Oktober 13, 2017Brandenburg,deliberation,democracy,echo chamber,Facebook,German Democratic Republic,political discontent,populism,recruitment of participants,refugees,social cohesion

Taking people seriously: a new approach for countering populism and furthering integration

Mai 12, 2017citizenship,deliberation,how to deliberate,paternalism,populism,refugees,relativism,respect,social workers

Rural Regeneration by Connecting Bigger Social Solutions

September 28, 2016Berlin,Brandenburg,deliberation,integration,integration in the country side,internet jobs,populism,refugees,rural regeneration,tourism,urbanization

How to Debate Values in a Diverse Europe

April 1, 2016democracy,indifference,Isaiah Berlin,pluralism,relativism,tolerance,vualues

Debating Values & Identity with Newcomers & European Natives

März 3, 2016Charles Taylor,deliberation,identity,integration,Isaiah Berlin

Do People Know What They Want? Social Scientific Responses

November 10, 2015deliberation,grievances,Pegida,radicalization,rationalization,troubles,Wutbürger

Lessons from Political Science on Participation & Democratization

September 25, 2015citizenship,deliberation,Eldersfeld,how to deliberate,political participation,Robert E. Lane

What Do Education Scholars Know?

August 4, 2015educational research,Montessori,pedagogy,Rudolf Steiner,usable knowledge

Are There Too Many PhDs?

Juli 13, 2015academic relevance,dissertation,PhD,usable knowledge

Academic Conferences Should Be Outlawed

Juli 7, 2015academic relevance,conferences,cooptation,home office,international exchange,sustainability,tourism,usable knowledge

Economists Looking For God

Juni 22, 2015Charles Lindblom,discipline,International Monetary Fund,Kenneth Rogoff,monism,neoclassical economics,Paul Krugman