Political Education in Times of Populism

Edda Sant is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. A former social studies teacher, her research interests lie in citizenship, political and democratic education. She has published widely in this field, and in 2016 her co-authored article was recognized with a Children’s Identity & Citizenship European Association Award.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. Populism as a democratic threat.- Chapter 2. Radical democratic education.- Chapter 3. Expected responses from political education.- Chapter 4. Populism as a possibility.- Chapter 5. Alternative understandings of political education.- Chapter 6. Towards a different radical democratic education.- Chapter 7. The promotion of British Values in England (UK).- Chapter 8. The 300th Jubilee of the national myth in Catalonia (Spain).- Chapter 9. Limitations of this project.- Chapter 10. Concluding remarks: “my preference will always be democracy”, and yours?