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Essays and Articles on Democratic Education

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Introduction
  
Introduction to The Online Directory of Democratic Education by Dana Bennis & Isaac Graves

Democratic Education Theory
   What Is Democratic Education? by Ron Miller
   Pluralistic Learning as the Core of Democratic Education by Yaacov Hecht
   How to Run a Democratic Meeting by Jerry Mintz
   Thoughts on Freedom and Democracy in the Montessori Environment by Sharon E. Caldwell & Matthew Henry R. Rich

Democratic Education in Practice

   Democratic Education Around the World by David Gribble
   Summerhill Today by Zoë Neill Readhead
   A Brief History of the Albany Free School & Community by Chris Mercogliano
   The New School by John R. Hiner Jr.
   We Are Out-Laws: Being a Public Freedom and Democracy School in Un-Democratic Times by Olivia Frey
   So You Want to Come to a Democratic Learning Community by Arnold Greenberg

Critical Perspectives on Democratic Education
  
Four Questions for Democratic Schools by Matt Hern
   The Trouble with Pure Freedom: A Case for Active Adult Involvement in Progressive Education by Alfie Kohn
   Question & Response after Alfie Kohn’s Keynote Address
   What is a Student-Centered Education? by John Russell Wenceslaus Hiner III

Research on Democratic Education
  
Lives of Passion, Schools of Hope: The Alumni Project for the Jefferson County Open School by Fredric G. Posner
   Sudbury Valley School: Former Students Look at Their Lives by Mimsy Sadofsky
   Research on Freedom-Based Education by Dana Bennis 

 
       
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