TY - JOUR
TI - Measuring competences for democratic culture: teaching human rights through religious education
AU - Marios Koukounaras Liagkis,
AU - Michalis Skordoulis,
AU - Vasiliki Geronikou
JO - Human Rights Education Review
PY - 2022
VL - 5
TODO - 1
SP - 112-135
PB - 
SN - 2535-5406
TODO - https://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.4487
TODO - null
TODO - This paper aims to present research on measuring competences for democratic culture. It describes the development of a multiple-item scale that measures competences in teaching democratic citizenship and human rights through religious education. A principal component analysis based on the 135 items of the Council of Europe’s Reference framework of competences for democratic culture was carried out in two phases, in order to construct and refine the scale. The result was a 52-item scale divided into six components. This was tested for its reliability, factor structure and validity; firstly on a sample of 123, and secondly on a sample of 403 secondary RE teachers (2018-19). The research scrutinises the concept of democratic competences as being the ability to mobilise and deploy relevant values, attitudes, skills, knowledge and/or understanding. It concludes that these competences are more complex structures than has been assumed.
ER -