Home | Global Digital Citizen Foundation. Solution Fluency Activity Planner. 20th vs 21st Century Classroom. The World Cafe. What is Democratic Education? | IDEA: Institute for Democratic Education in America. In a society based on participation, empowerment, and democracy, shouldn't education be participatory, empowering, and democratic? The United States of America is founded on democracy and the democratic values of meaningful participation, personal initiative, and equality and justice for all.
Democratic education infuses the learning process with these fundamental values of our society. Democratic education sees young people not as passive recipients of knowledge, but rather as active co-creators of their own learning. They are not the products of an education system, but rather valued participants in a vibrant learning community. Democratic education begins with the premise that everyone is unique, so each of us learns in a different way. By supporting the individual development of each young person within a caring community, democratic education helps young people learn about themselves, engage with the world around them, and become positive and contributing members of society.
An Unlikely Group Forms Unified Vision for the Future of Education. Education has long been a hotly debated issue and with good reason — the policies and actions of education leaders affect our nation’s children, the future of the workforce and the day-to-day lives of families. But the struggle to improve the system has often left advocates in distinct camps, each believing that their solution, whether it be charter schools or blended learning or investing in teachers, is the best way to improve learning. That’s why it’s surprising to see a group of high-profile but strange bedfellows putting forward a new vision for learning, which they’re calling Education Reimagined.
“People really wanted to get together to reimagine the fundamental system, recognizing that a whole lot of money has gone into trying to fix the system with no real results,” said Kelly Young, spokesperson for Education Reimagined. “We help people come in as people, not institutions, and they begin to see each other as part of the solution instead of as part of the problem,” Young said. Educators. P21’s reports and publications support a vision for learning to ensure 21st century readiness for every student.
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Welcome to The Independent Project. In Education, How Do We Create a Culture of Experimentation? — Bright. Tom Vander Ark (TV): Ten years ago, there was little innovation in education — limited R&D, almost no venture capital, and foundations were funding traditional ideas. Every other sector was transforming itself with technology, but education largely looked like it did a hundred years ago. That was the problem we were trying to address when we launched Getting Smart and Learn Capital in 2008. The good news is that we’re seeing progress on many fronts. From almost no venture capital seven years ago, we saw $1.6 billion invested in the first half of this year. Most national education foundations have developed an innovation agenda. While it hasn’t been as fast as hoped, I see progress in learning platforms and the explosion of open, maker, and project-based resources.
There are a couple of teams innovating on learning environments and tools simultaneously. Matt Candler (MC): Tom, you were way ahead of me when it comes to innovation in schooling. There are some bright spots, though. PBL K5. Creating Your Roadmap to 21st Century Learning Environments1. Assisted Shift - Transforming Education. What is school for? Education Revolution. HOME | Building Your Roadmap for 21st Century Learning Environments | NCTA. This revolution will not be schooled: How we are collectively improvising a ‘new story’ about learning » Bayo Akomolafe. This revolution will not be schooled: How we are collectively improvising a ‘new story’ about learning (Chapter in ‘Education, Learning and Development’, in publication) Bayo Akomolafe and Manish Jain “Nobody can teach me who I am.” ― Chinua Achebe A different story about learning Around the world, in puddles of silent reclamation, young people, communities and inspired collectives are co-enacting a radically different narrative about education and development – one which undercuts some of the fundamental and hitherto unchallengeable assumptions about what it means to learn, what is worth aspiring to, and what is possible (perhaps, even imperative) today.
This chapter is dedicated to exploratory spaces around the world where new notions of learning are being co-enacted. New frontiers for who we learn from, how we learn, where we learn, when we learn, what we learn (and unlearn) are being opened up. Anant is not alone in his quest to walkout of the old story. Education for What?
Footnotes. Institute for Democratic Education in America | IDEA. Julian Bond: A Giant of Justice Dear Friends, As you may or may not have recently heard, yet another tall and strong tree has fallen in our civil and human rights forest, Mr. Julian Bond. We here at IDEA are sending our condolences to his... Read More... Reflections: A Spring Type of Love Reflections: A Spring Type of Love Spring has fully sprung in certain areas of the country. Read More... Learning about Democratic Education from Colombia Last month the New York Times published an op-ed from David Kirp that opened many people's eyes to one of the most comprehensive examples of democratic education anywhere in the world: the Escuela Nueva model in Colombia.
ALFTrainingFramework2014.2. Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges. Values 1. Children Educate Themselves IV: Lessons from Sudbury Valley. The Sudbury Valley School has, for the past forty years, been the best-kept secret in American education . Most students of education have never heard of it. Professors of education ignore it, not out of malice but because they cannot absorb it into their framework of educational thought. The Sudbury Valley model of education is not a variation of standard education. It is not a progressive version of traditional schooling. But the secret is getting out, spread largely by students and others who have experienced the Sudbury Valley School directly. In the last posting I summarized evidence that hunter-gatherer children learn the extraordinary amount that they must to become effective adults through their own self-directed play and exploration.
For many years I have had the opportunity to observe the Sudbury Valley School, both as the father of a student who went there and as an academician using the school as a resource to study play and self-directed learning. What Does Opening a Democratic Free School Look Like? — the mosaic school. The first two weeks looked like some kids going to the courses we set up and others not. Some kids went one week and not the other.
Some left in the middle. Some just wanted to watch. Mostly, the kids really wanted to exercise their right to choose. Some would say they would not go to a course when we rang the bell to announce it. The kids hear us. This can be tough for adults, especially those who have prior teaching experience. I’ve been really amazed with the teachers we’ve got at TMS and their flexibility with the kids in the beginning stages. Starting a school looked like me and my newly found partner, Devin, spending hot days together and trying to process what the day held while cleaning up in the hour after the kids leave. The Art of Self-Directed Learning.
What is a democratic school? - Sands School; Ashburton, Devon. Home - Alfie Kohn. David Gribble. Trusting my child to choose his own adventure: democratic unschooling in action | Offbeat Families. I've been answering the question, "What grade is your son in? " for nine years, and even now I'm never quite sure what will come out of my mouth.
In some ways, it's actually getting harder to answer. The older G gets, the farther off the map of traditional education we seem. G has been attending The Clearwater School since age four. Clearwater is a Sudbury school, a democratic school based on freedom, trust, and responsibility. Kids have as much of a say in running the school as adults. I chose this school because I didn't want G to feel the pressure that kids can get "to live up to their potential. " Each student has a vote in all decisions about the school's day-to-day operations, and the meetings can feature vigorous debate. He is also increasingly active in the democratic life of the school. G on the fourth lap around Greenlake by Amanda Klein Clearwater staff model a high level of respect for children and their interests, and relate to them without a trace of condescension.
125 Ways To Make Your School More Democratic | Pedagogies of Abundance. Back in December, on a couple of blogs, I asked folks to contribute how they’ve made their schools or classrooms more democratic. Within days the list went from 15 (what we went live with) to hundreds, with contributions from educators in England, Israel, Puerto Rico, Brazil and all over the United States. And they’re still coming in. A couple of folks asked for a comprehensive list, so here it is. Crowdsourced and growing… Check out the list… What have you done, as a classroom teacher, a student, a parent, administrator, to make your school more equitable, less hierarchical, more welcoming to everyone, and more like a place where real thinking happens?
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