Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments : A Global Perspective / edited by Linda F. Nathan, Jonathan F. Mendonca, Gustavo Rojas Ayala.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nathan, Linda F., Editor.

Mendonca, Jonathan F., Editor.

Rojas Ayala, Gustavo., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schools.

Learning, Psychology of.

School management and organization.

School and Schooling.

School Research.

Learning Theory.

Organization and Leadership.

Local Subjects:

School and Schooling.

School Research.

Learning Theory.

Organization and Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (LVIII, 484 p. 1 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Summary:

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. Linda F. Nathan brings over four decades of experience in designing schools and nonprofits, including serving as the founding principal of Boston Arts Academy, the city's first public high school for the visual and performing arts. Currently, she supports and mentors educational leaders nationally and internationally and is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA. Jonathan F. Mendonca is the CEO of Shikha Institute of Education & Co-founder of Barefoot Edu Foundation, a non-profit that builds school leadership for the twenty-first century across three states in India. He has served as an educator, educator trainer, institute builder and policy advocate improving the quality of education through human centered systems and policies. Gustavo Rojas Ayala currently serves as the general director for Mexicanos Primero Sinaloa, Mexico, a non-profit that advocates for children’s right to education through research and policy analysis. He has extensive experience leading school intervention projects aimed at increasing educational justice in underprivileged communities in Chile and Mexico.

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.

ISBN:

9783031462979

OCLC:

1430659822