Some useful references for further reading about democratic education.
Organisations
AERO
International Democratic Education Conferences (IDEC)
IDEC is an annual event held which attracts participants from all around the world. The key-uniting theme is a passion for putting the learner at the centre of the learning process. The experience of IDEC goes beyond the student-centred learning philosophies and has broad applicability to all manner of progressive, alternative and mainstream schools.
Participants have found attending past IDEC’s an inspiring, rewarding and in some cases a life changing experience.
- 2008 – The conference held in Vancouver
- 2007 – The conference held in Brasil
- 2006 – The conference held in Sydney, Australia, from 10 – 16 July. 2006′s theme: Democracy – What’s Next? posed a challenging question about the shape of democratic education in the future.
2005 - The conference held in August 2005 in Berlin, Germany - 2004 (website no longer available) – The conference held in December 2004 in Bhubaneshwar, the capital city of the state of Orissa in India
- 2003 (website no longer available) – The conference held in July 2003 in Albany, New York
- 2002 (website no longer available) – The conference held in August 2002 in New Zealand
International Democratic Education Conference Protecting Democratic Schools Petition – To be sent to the UN, UNESCO and governments around the world
Australian Association for Progressive and Alternative Education
Other schools
Other democratic / progressive schools
- Kinma School – A progressive school in New South Wales
- Pine Valley School – A democratic school in Queensland
- Fitzroy Community School – FCS is an independent, alternative primary school in North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
- The Sudbury Valley School – A democratic school in the USA
- Summerhill School – The first school to practice child centred education
- Tamariki School – A democratic school in New Zealand
- See the AAPAE site for a greater list of member schools
Links
Education
- Society for the Advancement of Non-coercive Education (SANE)
- Australasian Association of Progressive and Alternative Education (AAPAE) – An advocacy GROUP for the cause of alternative and progressive education in Australasia
- The Education Revolution – An alternative education resource site
Other
- Sydney’s Child – A monthly magazine for parents and educators
- Ryde-Gladesville Climate Change Action Group Ryde-Gladesville Climate Change Action Group is a project of 4 Currambena and ex-Currambena parents – Mark Scott, Judith Webster, Jo Spangaro and Lynda Wightman. They are in the process of gathering broader support for the group especially in the Bennelong electorate. Their website can be viewed at www.climatechangerg.org
References
- Darling J (1994) “Child Centred Education and its critics” London, P.Chapman
- Cohen, D (1982) “Alternative Educatioon: The Currambena Experience” Sydney, MacQuarie University.
- Entwistle, H. ( ) “Child Centred Education” London, Methuen
- Gutman, A.S. (1987) “Democratic Education” Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press
- Neil, A.S. (1968) “Summerhill” London, Penguin
- Rousseau, J.J. (1911) “Emile” (translated by B.Foxley) London, Dent
