"Intention Is Not Method, Belief Is Not Evidence": Civic Education and Prevention With Former Right-Wing Extremists in German Schools

For over 20 years, school interventions involving former right-wing extremists have been popular in Germany.

In practice, they are advertised and conducted as both civic education and extremism prevention.

This book uses an evidence-based and interdisciplinary approach to examine the potentials and challenges of this format.

It provides a thematic embedding of German application, a comprehensive review of attributed impact assumptions and the state of related research.

Furthermore, this research offers highly valuable, unique and comprehensive insights based on empirical evidence.

It thus contributes to a better understanding of the format and its complexity.

Overall, the findings give no clear indication that the involvement of former right-wing extremists in schools initiate civic education processes or prevent political extremism.

Rather, the investigation found fundamental needs for additional research, modification, and sensitization.

In this vein, this book makes a pioneer contribution to quality assurance and evaluation research in civic education and extremism prevention.