In this project, I examine citizenship education and adolescents’ citizenship competences. I am part of the research team that conducts the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2022 in the Netherlands. The aim of this large-scale, quantitative study is to gain insight in adolescents’ citizenship knowledge, civic attitudes and skills, and citizenship education in the Netherlands. I am especially interested in the role of the different contexts in which adolescents grow up, in relation to their citizenship attitudes. Besides the school context, I focus on the home environment (parents) and the peer group. Since ICCS was also conducted in 2009 and 2016, I will also investigate changes over time in citizenship education and citizenship competences in the Netherlands.

This research is funded by NRO. For more information about ICCS 2022, see: https://www.iccsnederland.nl/