Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments: A Global Perspective

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031462963
• ISBN13: 9783031462962
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"