I write this post to ask for your questions. The reason will, hopefully, become clear eventually. For now, let us just say this is for a project that Sören Kirchner (of tologo verlag) and myself have been thinking about for a couple of years now. This is the first step towards realizing it.
If you have been involved in democratic education for more than a day or two, you will know what I mean when I say that some questions are frequently asked. Whenever you have to explain democratic schooling to someone new, there are a few topics that will invariably come up: how do children learn in such a school?, isn’t that too much freedom? (or: don’t children need structure?), how can young people make wise decisions, for themselves and for the school?, etc. These are just a few – but we want more.
If you are involved in democratic education, send us questions you are often asked.
And if democratic education is new to you, you certainly have questions of your own, and we’d like to hear them.
You can send us your questions in the comments, or by email: michael at sappir dot net.
Hi Michael and Sören
These are some questions from our last info night. We are to staff members and one student age 13 to answer questions.
We will write some more after the next info evening 19 March.
Can a young person really take responsibility for her own education?
Will she be able to continue further in education?
How can you as a school make sure that they learn what they need to learn?
How can we as parents support the school and our child if we really want to support the dem-ed way?
Can it be too late, if a boy for example newer learnt to read and write and he’s 10 and not interested at all?
What if there is some math that you need to learn but you don’t know it, how on earth can you then ask for it?
How do you pull yourself together to do the subjects?