Children in the Garden of Democracy: The Meaning of Civic Engagement in Today's Egypt.

Autor/inn/en	Youniss, James; Barber, Brian K.; Billen, Rhett M.
Titel	Children in the Garden of Democracy: The Meaning of Civic Engagement in Today's Egypt.
Quelle	In: Journal of social science education, 12 (2013) 1, S. 6-13Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1439-6246; 1618-5293
DOI	10.4119/jsse-630
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Jugend; Menschenrechte; Politische Bildung; Politisches Engagement; Revolution; Soziale Bewegung; Zivilgesellschaft; Islam; Ägypten
Abstract	This is the second in a series of reports on the current wave of youth civic engagement in Egypt. [The] goal [of the authors] is to offer an on-the-ground account of the unfolding political changes in Egypt from the perspective a small group of young activists from Cairo and Alexandria. [The authors] first report was based on interviews with these youth who described their involvement in the demonstrations of early 2011 that led to the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. [The authors] viewed their comments in terms of a social-movement approach to civic engagement. These young people spelled out their grievances against Mubarak's government, the ideological outlook they shared on political reform, the opportunities that enabled their actions, and the organizational apparatus that made this momentous event possible. This paper is a reflective analysis of questions that have emerged in [The author's] research. [They] continued to interview these same youth activists over the past year and correlated their evolving views first with our further exploration of Egypt's complex political situation and second with [their] knowledge of recent social scientific thought regarding civic engagement among youth. This triangulation leads [them] to consider three kinds of questions: 1) how to assess civic engagement adequately in a population of youth that lived under politically restrictive conditions; 2) how new definitions of active Egyptian citizenship are emerging; and 3) what these new definitions imply for engagement in the future (Verlag).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main (extern)
Update	2013/4