Democratic Education Resources

 

Democratic Education Book List:
Learner Voice	A NEW free publication for educators and learners
Inspiring Schools: Impact and Outcomes	Examines the impact of pupil participation in school settings.
How Children Fail	Observations and analysis of children in class.
The Enquiring Classroom	Observation of and comment on a primary school classroom in the 1970s.
Real Education: Varieties of Freedom	Descriptions of democratic education in eighteen schools in eight countries.
Lifelines	The importance of democratic education for disadvantaged children in the world.
Let our Children Learn	Retired teachers helped primary children gain independence and develop imagination.
The School I'd Like	Competition entries where young people were asked to imagine their ideal school.
Leave me Alone	For her thesis, Joanna Gore spent three months as a pupil in a primary school - her conclusions.
Democratic Education in Schools and Classrooms	By Mary A Hepbur
Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies:Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities	McDonough, Kevin (Editor), Feinberg, Walter (Editor),
Democratic Education	The first book-length study of the democratic theory of education
Democratic Education: Ethnographic Challenges	Challenging how democratic schooling is attacked by the marketisation of education.
Democratic Leadership in Education	Democratic leadership, and how it is relevant to school education and learning.
The Directory of Democratic Education	Listing 175 democratic schools in 28 countries involving 12,000- 15,000 students.
The Hannam Report: A report to the DfEE	Evaluating the impact of student participation on standards of education.
I Was a Teenage Governor	Tool for schools appointing pupils as Associate Members of Governing bodies.
Books by A.S. Neill	Set in a democratic school: provocative and entertaining