"These young people, they really don’t want to feel like victims: they really want to act and to instigate change." An interview to mark Human Rights Day.
The goals of the project were to reach low-resourced community schools with a new way of integrating ICT use for a sector of society that usually doesn’t have access to educational innovation.
This initiative, selected as a finalist for the 2016 Democracy Innovation Award, took place in public schools in Bolivia and experiments with creative ways of reinventing student government.
Anja Van den Durpel is Head of Integration Services at the City of Ghent, tasked with helping integration and soothing community tensions in the diverse Belgian city. Here's how she does it.
Interview with Sachin Joshi, pioneering educationalist from India, at the World Forum for Democracy 2016.
“We say there cannot be two democratic schools that are the same. But you can find these four major rules in most of them.”
"All the problems in education you can relate back to the coercion in schools. To me the forcing of children is really against the rights of the child."
Ramin Farhangi in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Arleen Pimentel at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
"After a year, in the fall of 2013, I wanted to investigate the possibility of working towards being Minister of Education." Simone Haenen told her story at the World Forum for Democracy 2016.
Antonia Wulff in conversation with Rosemary Bechler and Kelly McBride at the 2016 World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg.
openDemocracy is partnering with the World Forum for Democracy 2016 to draw inspiration from a wide range of innovative grassroots and political initiatives worldwide, and kick-start the debate on what education can do for democracy and what democracy can do for education.
