Building democratic schools. Radio Free School release_4bvnwhaxpvd3nbotpaxpxd7dl4

by Carlo Ricci, Lisa Hill

Released as a article-journal by Speaker.

2004  

Abstract

This paper is theoretically grounded in an educational movement known as unschooling. Unschooling is a learner centered democratic approach to education. Jerry Mintz (2004) defines learner-centered education as "an approach that is based on the interest of the student rather than curriculum driven, where someone else has the idea of what you ought to be learning," and he defines democratic education as "education where students are actually empowered to make decisions about their own education and if they are in a school their own school." This paper is about apprenticeship programs and how schooling and paper certificates have become more important in determining if someone can do a particular job than them actually doing it. In a graduate course that Carlo was teaching and Lisa was a student, there was a lot of discussion about the lack of connection between high school courses, literacy test scores and compulsory credits with being able to contribute meaningfully in the world we live. Although, we often hear and read about the connection between, for example,
In text/plain format

Archived Files and Locations

application/pdf   33.0 kB
file_5eiokz7ph5h7rdzympxbendcwq
web.archive.org (webarchive)
jual.nipissingu.ca (web)
Read Archived PDF
Preserved and Accessible
Type  article-journal
Stage   unknown
Year   2004
Work Entity
access all versions, variants, and formats of this works (eg, pre-prints)
Catalog Record
Revision: 0258b3a2-f908-4e2b-8de3-dda222abdb64
API URL: JSON