Political education deals with one of the most exciting questions that people can engage with through learning: the question of how we should shape and regulate our coexistence in societies. This book unfolds the didactic foundations for a modern political education that is conceived from the perspective of learning processes and aims at imparting competencies. Wolfgang Sander connects traditional lines of political education with insights from current learning research and constructivism. He presents perspectives for the future of political education in an educational environment that is undergoing profound change. Both school-based and extracurricular practice fields are addressed. For the new edition, the book has been completely revised and updated. A new chapter on competency-oriented planning of learning offerings has been added.