Overview
- Presents a global perspective on democratic learning
- Offers guidelines and strategies for school design using case examples
- Introduces an emergent framework of four key pillars for democratic schools
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Open Flow of Ideas
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High Quality Equitable Education
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 Head of Scale 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments
Book Subtitle: A Global Perspective
Editors: Linda F. Nathan, Jonathan F. Mendonca, Gustavo Rojas Ayala
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46297-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s). 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46296-2Published: 07 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46299-3Due: 12 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46297-9Published: 06 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LVIII, 484
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Education, general, Educational Psychology, Administration, Organization and Leadership