Full Description
This open access book explores democratic schools and learning environments globally. The book focuses on a newly developed framework for democratic education. The authors describe existing schools and concept schools—those that are ideas but not in operation. The first section includes the editors' own journeys. Pillar 1 includes schools that emphasize the open flow of ideas and choices, regardless of their popularity. Pillar 2 maintains that it is impossible to have a high quality education that ignores equity. Chapters explore how many diverse 'marginalized' communities experience education and some innovations that hold great promise for inclusion. Pillar 3 provides examples of schools where active engagement, consensus and compromise support the 'common good.' Pillar 4 investigates schools which organize students, parents, social institutions and the larger community collaboratively to achieve its goals and to solve theirs and society's most urgent challenges.
Contents
.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Kopernikus School: dialog and respect for a democratic life.- Chapter 3. Cultivating Democratic Learning Spaces: A Framework for Transformational Civics by HomePlace Collective.- Chapter 4. Alif Layla Arts Center: Dream, Explore, Act.- Chapter 5. Schooling in Egypt: Reimagined.- Chapter 6. The Hope of the HOMies.- Chapter 7. The Globe School.- Chapter 8. Empathy School: A democratic, nature-based SEL school.- Chapter 9. Building Democracy through Norms Creation: The Chelsea Public Schools, a District Revitalized.- Chapter 10. Motivation, Segregation and Responsibility: the Challenges in Our Way to Grow Equal Citizens in a Democracy.- Chapter 11. Starting with Self, Sharing Academic Success, Co-creating the World.- Chapter 12. Nurturing Lifelong Learning through Creative Projects.- Chapter 13. Moving Beyond a Checklist: Community Schools for Democratic Education in California and Beyond.- Chapter 14. Calling the shots: how each student can flourish with freedom, equity, and community.- Chapter 15. Educating students to think, feel and behave democratically: Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF): A magical space of possibility.- Chapter 16. The School Systems Remix - Building Democratic School Systems through Hip-Hop.- Chapter 17. Let the Light In.- Chapter 18. Start with the Learning Plan.- Chapter 19. Mission Hill School: Fostering Creative Storytelling through Democratic Learning.- Chapter 20. Building Student Agency One Book at a Time.- Chapter 21. The Galaxy Belongs to Them: Interests, Agency, and Democratic Schools.- Chapter 22. With our eyes on the students. City of Berlin School: keys to a democratic transformation.- Chapter 23. From being a student in a democratic school to founding one.- Chapter 24. Lift Every Voice: A Case for Democratic Music Education.- Chapter 25. Walkabout: From Disengagement to Radical Engagement.- Chapter 26. Coco: A nomad learning experience for digital inclusion in the Peruvian Amazon.- Chapter 27. The Seychelles National Youth Service (NYS): fragments, thoughts and reflections on an experiment in democratic education.- Chapter 28. Self-authorship and Co-authorship: Democratic Education in Sitka, Alaska.- Chapter 29. BirdHouse: A wholesome and joyful homeschool co-op.- Chapter 30. Weaving Regenerative Education: A Reflection from the Pacific Coast of Mexico.- Chapter 31. Baxter Academy for Technology and Science: An Innovative STEM School that Embraces Its Enduring Tensions.- Chapter 32. Developing VOICE in middle school through Examining Essential Questions.- Chapter 33. MATTERS: Laying groundwork for creative practice rooted in ecological and social awareness, repair, and care.- Chapter 34. The story of Artist Proof Studio and the building of a democratic art school in South Africa.- Chapter 35. Recess in a Learning Landscape: An opportunity for the development of democratic skills.- Chapter 36. A Systemic Approach to Promoting Democratic Education in Schools.- Chapter 37. Raising Glocal Citizens for the Future.- Chapter 38. Ukrainian refugees in Poland: Two schools under one roof. One is offline, the other one - online.- Chapter 39. Good Trouble Report.- Chapter 40. Conclusion.
