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Published in: HomeThe future of education: Georges Haddad and Yaacov Hecht at the World Forum for Democracy 2016The two keynote speakers come from very different worlds. But both agree that a revolution in education is required,...
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Published in: HomeWise young people"These young people, they really don’t want to feel like victims: they really want to act and to instigate change."...
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Published in: HomeSOLE in Argentina: the issue is how to create the right questionsThe goals of the project were to reach low-resourced community schools with a new way of integrating ICT use for a...
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Published in: HomeReinventing student government in Bolivia: Democracy In PracticeThis initiative, selected as a finalist for the 2016 Democracy Innovation Award, took place in public schools in...
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Published in: Home'By talking to one another, we can learn to respect one another'Anja Van den Durpel is Head of Integration Services at the City of Ghent, tasked with helping integration and...
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Published in: Home"If a poor child cannot come to the education, then education must go to him."Interview with Sachin Joshi, pioneering educationalist from India, at the World Forum for Democracy 2016.
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Published in: HomeNotes from the opening plenary: towards teachers and students deciding on 20% of the curriculum together“We say there cannot be two democratic schools that are the same. But you can find these four major rules in most of them.”
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Published in: Home"Any citizen should be able to open a school."Ramin Farhangi in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Arleen Pimentel at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
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Published in: Home"In democratic schools I haven't seen any bullying at all.""All the problems in education you can relate back to the coercion in schools. To me the forcing of children is...
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Published in: HomeSo what is the purpose of education?"After a year, in the fall of 2013, I wanted to investigate the possibility of working towards being Minister of...
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Published in: Home"What is a fair and good way of measuring human rights education?"Antonia Wulff in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Kelly McBride at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
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Published in: HomeIntroducing this week's theme: Strasbourg's World Forum for Democracy 2016 asks how education can renew democracyopenDemocracy is partnering with the World Forum for Democracy 2016 to draw inspiration from a wide range of...
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Published in: Home"If democracy is going to work, it's got to be practised in school as well as talked about."Derry Hannam in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Margarete Hentze at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
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Published in: HomeUS election special: an oD youth newsroom roundtable27 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we face a US president-elect threatening a wall of his own making.
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Published in: Home'If you can read it, you can do it' - an interview with Moses MachipisaThe WFD programme provided a safe space for Moses in 2014. An openDemocracy youth reporter catches up with him two years on.
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Published in: HomeKnow your rightsInclusive, democratic education means including refugee children too. openDemocracy’s youth newsroom reports from a...
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Published in: HomeRevolutionary acts: an oD youth newsroom roundtable“I am very scared of what is happening in Europe. We are always at the risk that our democracies will be lost”. Our...
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Published in: HomeKnock, knock: is there room for Democratic Schools?The Democratic Schools model has had a lot of impact at the WFD, but is it just a fad? Here’s a reaction from the...
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Published in: HomeHow do you think about the future, now?Thinking about the future means accepting huge complexity. For democracy to survive, it’s a skill we must learn. A...
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Published in: HomeWhat did you learn today?The openDemocracy youth newsroom asked young participants at the World Forum for Democracy to share what inspired...
