Participation not only means taking part, but above all expresses an inner attitude. Learning and practising this attitude is essential for community life so that people of all ages can contribute to debates and discourse. This is only possible if a solid knowledge base is built to be able to contribute in a substantive, reflective and factual manner. This volume provides a contribution as to how this can be achieved, dealing with participation against the background of a Christian value framework from a scientific, theoretical and practical perspective. The following applies: Don't be a dumb dog and don't agree to just anything!

Dorothea Wojtczak, Vorstandsreferentin beim Caritasverband Wiesbaden-Rheingau-Taunus e.V. und Doktorandin der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.Br., Ivona Gebala, Bildungsreferentin der Katholischen Akademie Fulda,   Gunter Geiger, Direktor und Leiter der Katholischen Akademie Fulda