Educating for democracy : the case for participatory budgeting in schools / edited by Daniel Schugurensky (Director, Participatory Governance Initiative, Professor at School of Public Affairs and School of Social Transformation. Arizona State University) and Tara Bartlett (Senior Research Analyst, Participatory Governance Initiative, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, US).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schugurensky, Daniel, editor.

Bartlett, Tara, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation.

Local budgets.

Citizenship--Study and teaching.

Citizenship.

Educational equalization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"This captivating book provides a detailed examination of school participatory budgeting (SPB), a democratic process that combines citizenship education, civic engagement and participatory governance. Presenting insights from SPB processes across the globe, it advocates for the wider rollout of programs which amplify students' voices, their deliberative capacities and decision-making power while improving school climate and campus infrastructure. Daniel Schugurensky and Tara Bartlett bring together an international range of practitioners and researchers to analyse the main accomplishments, challenges and lessons learned through the design, implementation, and evaluation of SPB. Chapter authors highlight how SPB is gaining traction and how national and local contexts can explain similarities and differences. The authors contend that this learner-centered pedagogy nurtures student agency, cross-curricular learning, prosocial behaviors and democratic practices. This book is an essential tool for teachers, educational leaders, and scholars from social sciences and related fields interested in implementing SPB and evaluating its impact"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword: Setting the stage for participatory democracy / Josh Lerner

Introduction: School participatory budgeting and citizenship education: Where are we at? / Tara Bartlett and Daniel Schugurensky

1. School participatory budgeting in every school of the country? Lessons from a national initiative to spread citizenship education / Pedro Abrantes

2. Participatory budgeting in schools as a tool for racial justice / Jonathan E. Collins, Pamela Jennings, Matthew Lioe, Camila Olander Echavarria, Janelle Haire and Emma Britton Miller

3. Students at the budget table: Participatory budgeting in chicago public schools / Thea Crum and Katherine Faydash

4. Children's participation in decision-making: When schools and local governments work together in participatory budgeting / Andrés Falck and Marta Barros

5. Motivations for participating in educational participatory budgeting / Alberto Ford, Gisela Signorelli and Patricia Sorribas

6. Developing democratic skills among children and adolescents through school participatory budgeting: The case of mérida, yucatán / Ana Patricia Santamaría García and Alan Andrade

7. Everyone counts: Building school and community citizenship from a northern European perspective / Jez Hall

8. School participatory budgeting in serbia: From a local project to a national youth strategy policy / Aleksandra Ilijin and Jelena Karać

9. Five lessons on building youth power through school participatory budgeting / Antonnet Johnson

10. Examining the impact of school participatory budgeting: A psychosocial approach / Patricia García-Leiva, Nazly G. Albornoz-Manyoma and María Soledad Palacios-Gálvez

11. From school participatory budgeting to a youth-led municipal participatory budgeting: The case of kutna hora, Czech Republic / Ekaterina Petrikevich

12. Why let the school community decide? The views of educational leaders / Madison Rock

13. Different designs, different outcomes: Lessons from school participatory budgeting in Italy / Stefano Stortone and Elisa Biacca

14. School participatory budget in Poland: Towards a common experience for students / Mateusz Wojcieszak and Daniel Schugurensky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781035302178 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.