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Do non-formal and informal adult education affect citizens' political participation during adulthood?
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Abstract Purpose: While research on political participation hardly takes into account the effects of non-formal or informal education, the effects of formal education are well investigated. The aim of this paper is to determine the extent to which non-formal and informal education contribute to adults’ parti... view more
Purpose: While research on political participation hardly takes into account the effects of non-formal or informal education, the effects of formal education are well investigated. The aim of this paper is to determine the extent to which non-formal and informal education contribute to adults’ participation in different political activities when formal educational background and other socioeconomic factors are controlled.
Method: This paper uses data from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS, N=9,084). Binomial logistic regressions are used for the analyses, and average marginal effects (AMEs) are used for the model’s output.
Findings: The findings reveal that non-formal and informal adult education significantly affect different political activities. However, the effects of non-formal and informal adult education differ with regard to the different forms of political participation. The results underline the importance of differentiated analyses of political participation and non-formal and informal adult education. In addition, the results show that some types of non-formal and informal education have a greater impact on adults of low socioeconomic status.
Research limitations: This paper cannot account for self-selection effects because adults’ participation in different political activities was collected only in one wave.... view less
Keywords
adult education; political participation; involvement; informal learning
Classification
Vocational Training, Adult Education
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
non-formal and informal adult education; Civic Engagement; German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), starting cohort 6 (SC6, version 8.0.0)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 5-24
Journal
Journal of Social Science Education, 18 (2019) 4
Issue topic
Participation in Non-Formal Education and Community Education - Implications for Civic and Political Capital
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4119/jsse-1443
ISSN
1618-5293
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed