Fit4EU - Teacher Trainings for a Target Group-Specific Civic Education on the European Union

Presentation of European results from ICCS (December)

Fit4EU was the title of a conference on professionalisation for political education about Europe held on 1–2 December at the University of Frankfurt. Prof. Hermann Josef Abs presented results from the ICCS 2022 teacher survey on the anchoring of European civic and citizenship education in teacher training. He also discussed how students’ identification with Europe and attitudes towards international cooperation in Europe develop, based on the students survey

 

The presentation drew on the following publications, among others:

Abs, Hermann J.; Deimel, Daniel; Hahn-Laudenberg, Katrin (2024): Aus- und Weiterbildung von Lehrkräften zur politischen und ökonomischen Bildung [Training and further education of teachers in civic and citizenship education and economic education]. In: Weiterbildung. Zeitschrift für Grundlagen, Praxis und Trends (2024/03).

Hahn-Laudenberg, K., Abs, H.J. (2020). Schule als Kontext für die Entstehung von supranationaler politischer Unterstützung bei 14-Jährigen in Europa [School as a context for the emergence of supranational political support among 14-year-olds in Europe]. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft 23, 1125–1147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-020-00976-4

Matafora, B., Oberle, M. & Abs, H. J. (2024). Supranationalität. Schülerperspektiven auf Europa und die EU [Supranationality. Students’ perspectives on Europe and the EU]. In H. J. Abs, K. Hahn-Laudenberg, D. Deimel & J. F. Ziemes (Hrsg.), ICCS 2022. Schulische Sozialisation und politische Bildung von 14-Jährigen im internationalen Vergleich (S. 153–174). Münster: Waxmann. https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830998228.08

Matafora, B.; Ziemes, J.F.; Abs, H.J. (2023): A multilevel analysis of factors influencing teenagers’ identification with Europe: the effects of migration and learning opportunities. In: Comparative Migration Studies 11 (1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-023-00348-x

Place:
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Date:
1–2 December 2025

:
Results from the ICCS 2022 teacher survey on the integration of political education about Europe into teacher training

Further information:
www.fit4eu.org