PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

The paper gives a brief outline of a genuine conventionalist approach for analysing citizenship education in schools in a transnational perspective. The key elements of this approach are situations as the key units of analysis, the plurality of situations and of persons who refer to plural orders in these situations, the controversial character of situations and the striving for establishing compromises with regard to certain orders of worth. The concept of interlinked situations will be introduced as an alternative to the customary multi-level analysis. The article argues that methodological situationalism allows overcoming the systematic shortcomings of international comparison. This conceptual paper is based on common research with Andrea Szukala and Claude Proeschel.