democracy in schools

survey

8th graders

1 22. April 2013

• What does democracy mean to you?

everybody can vote (1) freedom (1)

each vote counts (1) rights (1)

equal rights (6) better than dictatorship (1)

freedom of opinion (10) elections (1)

right to education (5) parties (1)

no slavery (1)  

2 22. April 2013

• What decisions are you allowed to make at home?

choice of meals (3) who is allowed to enter my room (3)

movies (3) holidays, decision made together (1)

When to be at home – latest 8pm (1)

to mediate in conflicts (1)

weekend trips (2) say my opinion, my mother decides what I have to do (1)

stay up as long as I want, especially weekends (1)

my father lets me get away with things to easily (1)

3 22. April 2013

• What decisions aren’t you allowed to make at home?

holiday (4) what I want to do at home (1)

leave family meetings earlier or even stay at home (2)

private matters (1)

I don’t like to make decisions because I’m afraid of making a fool of myself (1)

housekeeping (3)  trips (1)

4 22. April 2013

5 22. April 2013

• What decisions are you allowed to make at school?

choice of some subjects (2) election of class spokesmen (4)

which of today’s subjects we want to start with (3)

whom I sit next to (2)

which of today’s work I want to start with during silent work (1)

school trips (2)

whom I lend my pencils etc (1)

nothing (1) perhaps a misunderstanding 

we are allowed almost everything (1)

5 22. April 2013

6 22. April 2013

• Wht decisions aren‘t you allowed to make at school?

tests (1) menu at school (3)

choice of class teacher (2) not to go to a full-time day class (1)

if I want to borrow sth.,perhaps I don’t get it back (1)

which subject we start with (1)

if I work or not (1) tell teachers how to teach (1)

refuse working (1) if I stay at home or go to school (2)

6 22. April 2013

• Would you vote if you were 18?

I don’t know right now (1) I don’t thinks so because I don’t know who I should vote for (1)

Yes, if I’d know enough about politics / democracy (1)

Yes, because I want to vote (1)

Yes, because I want to participate / my vote should count (3)

Yes and I already know who I would vote for (1)

No, because I don’t know (understand) a lot about that stuff (4)

No, because I’m not interested in (1)

7 22. April 2013

• Do you think voting at the age of 16 would be okay?

Yes (2) No (9)

…because teenagers are not mature enough (3)

…not enough experience (2)

…not enough general knowledge to understand politics (4)

…you don’t know who to vote for and to avoid voting for the wrong person / party (1)

8 22. April 2013

• Do you know any parties?

FDP (7) CDU (8) / CSU (9)

SPD (7) PDS (3) / Die Linke (n) (3)

Die Grünen (6) Piratenpartei / Die Piraten (6)

Die Frauen (1) AFP (1)

Frankenpartei (1) NPD (1)

9 22. April 2013

• Do you know any politicians?

Angela Merkel (5) Angelina Merkel (1)

Gaug (1) Gerhard Schröder (1)

Seehofer (1) Rößler (1)

Roth (1) Ude (1)

Steinbrück (1) Recep Talalip Erdogan (1)

10 22. April 2013