Book Review: ‘Intention is not method, belief is not evidence’: Civic Education and Prevention with Former Right-Wing Extremists in German Schools
Keywords:
Former Extremists, P/CVE, Workshops in Schools, Impact, EvaluationAbstract
This article reviews Antje Gansewig’s “‘Intention is not method, belief is not evidence’: Civic Education and Prevention with Former Right-Wing Extremists in German Schools” (2022).
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