The digital space opens up new opportunities for online political participation among youth and adults and represents a significant context for socialization in the political sphere. This research project examines the forms and contexts of online political participation among Swiss youth using media diaries and problem-centered interviews. Based on empirical data, young people and experts are collaborating to develop approaches to digital citizenship education for schools and community-based child and youth services.

What can historical learning contribute to meeting current challenges? The aim of the journal is to promote transnational and cross-cultural dialog and to stimulate an interdisciplinary understanding between researchers, scientific traditions, ontologies and epistemologies from different world regions and contexts.

A basic knowledge test with 500 test items for naturalization candidates is being developed for the canton of Zurich.

The annual POLIS magazine is dedicated to topics that are important to young people. It contains background reports, interviews and practical articles and provides information on topic-specific teaching materials.

This ethnographically oriented study uses instructional videos to examine, among other things, how the children and adults involved in civic education lessons address each other, which dialogues of origin play a role and how natio-ethno-cultural lines of difference are introduced and addressed.

The findings of this study will allow a more precise definition of the potentials and challenges of civic education as currently envisaged in Curriculum 21.

Einer der wichtigsten Schlüssel zur eigenständigen politischen Meinungsbildung ist das Erkennen und Verstehen von Machtstrukturen –in analogen wie in digitalen Interaktionen. Mithilfe von Gruppen-und Einzelgesprächen mit Jugendlichen zwischen 12 und 18 Jahren wollen wir Erkenntnisse über die politische Meinungsbildung von jungen Menschen im digitalen Raum gewinnen. Besonderes Augenmerkliegt dabei auf dem Wissen über und das Bewusstsein für die Machtstrukturen und -verhältnisse, die in den digitalen Kommunikations-und Informationskanälen verankert sind. Ansporn für das Projekt ist die bisher noch eher dünne theoretische Grundlage für Themen der Digitalisierung und Politischer Bildung sowie die fehlende Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der Macht im digitalen Raum.