Effects of a participatory teaching module on democratic education in teacher training programmes

This paper examines the effects of a two-session, participatory teaching module that was implemented to strengthen the democratic education competence of student teachers (N = 159) in a quasi-experimental study from summer semester 2023 to summer semester 2024. As the module is not topic-specific, it could be deployed in nearly any field of study. The results from a two-factor analysis of variance with repeated measures (pre-, post- and follow-up) illustrate the module’s effects on students' self-efficacy beliefs regarding a participatory, process-oriented lesson design, as well as their knowledge of methodologies for the democratic development of assessment criteria in teaching-learning arrangements.