Civic Education and Contested Democracy

Wim de Jong is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Open University of Heerlen, the Netherlands. His research interests include the history of voting, social scientific experts, and urban social engineering, and he has published widely on these topics.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Moralizing citizens. Democracy and civic education during reconstruction (1945-1950).- Chapter 3: Tolerance and individuality. Debating democracy in the 1950s.- Chapter 4: No country for old men. Contesting authority in the 1960s.- Chapter 5: Participation and indoctrination. Education and democracy in the long 1970s.- Chapter 6: Moralism and hedonism. Towards a pedagogical state since the 1980s.- Chapter 7: Outlook.