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Educating for Democracy
The Case for Participatory Budgeting in Schools
9781035302161 Edward Elgar Publishing
This captivating book provides a detailed examination of school participatory budgeting (SPB), a process that combines school democracy, civic engagement and citizenship education. Presenting insights from SPB processes across the globe, it advocates for the wider rollout of programs which amplify students’ voices, their deliberative capacities and decision-making power while improving school climate and campus infrastructure.
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This captivating book provides a detailed examination of school participatory budgeting (SPB), a democratic process that combines citizenship education, civic engagement and participatory governance. Presenting insights from SPB processes across the globe, it advocates for the wider rollout of programs which amplify students’ voices, their deliberative capacities and decision-making power while improving school climate and campus infrastructure.
Daniel Schugurensky and Tara Bartlett bring together an international range of practitioners and researchers to analyse the main accomplishments, challenges and lessons learned through the design, implementation, and evaluation of SPB. Chapter authors highlight how SPB is gaining traction and how national and local contexts can explain similarities and differences. The authors contend that this learner-centered pedagogy nurtures student agency, cross-curricular learning, prosocial behaviors and democratic practices.
This book is an essential tool for teachers, educational leaders, and scholars from social sciences and related fields interested in implementing SPB and evaluating its impact.
Daniel Schugurensky and Tara Bartlett bring together an international range of practitioners and researchers to analyse the main accomplishments, challenges and lessons learned through the design, implementation, and evaluation of SPB. Chapter authors highlight how SPB is gaining traction and how national and local contexts can explain similarities and differences. The authors contend that this learner-centered pedagogy nurtures student agency, cross-curricular learning, prosocial behaviors and democratic practices.
This book is an essential tool for teachers, educational leaders, and scholars from social sciences and related fields interested in implementing SPB and evaluating its impact.
Critical Acclaim
‘With democracy under attack world-wide, this book could not come at a better time. Civic education has long been seen as a means for restoring commitments to democratic institutions, but when it comes to civic engagement, boosting political participation has always been a difficult nut to crack. Enter school-based participatory budgeting. As an approach to democratic renewal, the power of PB is well-known. As a pedagogy, it holds particular promise. This book offers a much-needed roadmap with dozens of practical how-to examples. Teachers, principals, academics, and policymakers who want to know what school participatory budgeting is and how it can help strengthen democracy should all read this gem of a book.’
– Joel Westheimer, Research Chair in Democracy and Education, University of Ottawa, Canada
‘Democracy is a highly contested, nebulous and contentious concept. Everyone wants it but we are often focused on, and frustrated by, normative elections as the way to get there, and those elections are fraught with problems, including, ironically, not building a critically-engaged democracy. In Educating for Democracy: The Case for Participatory Budgeting in Schools, Daniel Schugurensky and Tara Bartlett have pulled together a wonderful group of international scholars to highlight the process of building democracy, within citizens, schools and communities. While important, the end-point is not as fundamental as the process, and this book provides significant insight into how participatory budgeting can help us create more engaged and democratic societies. This book can help us start to rethink citizenship education at the local level.’
– Paul R. Carr, UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship & Transformative Education, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
– Joel Westheimer, Research Chair in Democracy and Education, University of Ottawa, Canada
‘Democracy is a highly contested, nebulous and contentious concept. Everyone wants it but we are often focused on, and frustrated by, normative elections as the way to get there, and those elections are fraught with problems, including, ironically, not building a critically-engaged democracy. In Educating for Democracy: The Case for Participatory Budgeting in Schools, Daniel Schugurensky and Tara Bartlett have pulled together a wonderful group of international scholars to highlight the process of building democracy, within citizens, schools and communities. While important, the end-point is not as fundamental as the process, and this book provides significant insight into how participatory budgeting can help us create more engaged and democratic societies. This book can help us start to rethink citizenship education at the local level.’
– Paul R. Carr, UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship & Transformative Education, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
Contents
Contents
Foreword: setting the stage for participatory democracy xi
Josh Lerner
Introduction: school participatory budgeting and citizenship
education: where are we at? 1
Tara Bartlett and Daniel Schugurensky
1 School participatory budgeting in every school of the
country? Lessons from a national initiative to spread
citizenship education 23
Pedro Abrantes
2 Participatory budgeting in schools as a tool for racial justice 37
Jonathan E. Collins, Pamela Jennings, Matthew Lioe,
Camila Olander Echavarria, Janelle Haire and Emma Britton Miller
3 Students at the budget table: participatory budgeting in
Chicago public schools 58
Thea Crum and Katherine Faydash
4 Children’s participation in decision-making: when schools
and local governments work together in participatory budgeting 77
Andrés Falck and Marta Barros
5 Motivations for participating in educational participatory
budgeting 99
Alberto Ford, Gisela Signorelli and Patricia Sorribas
6 Developing democratic skills among children and
adolescents through school participatory budgeting: the
case of Mérida, Yucatán 120
Ana Patricia Santamaría García and Alan Andrade
7 Everyone counts: building school and community
citizenship from a Northern European perspective 132
Jez Hall
8 School participatory budgeting in Serbia: from a local
project to a national youth strategy policy 152
Aleksandra Ilijin and Jelena Karać
9 Five lessons on building youth power through school
participatory budgeting 159
Antonnet Johnson
10 Examining the impact of school participatory budgeting:
a psychosocial approach 178
Patricia García-Leiva, Nazly G. Albornoz-Manyoma and
María Soledad Palacios-Gálvez
11 From school participatory budgeting to a youth-led
municipal participatory budgeting: the case of Kutna
Hora, Czech Republic 195
Ekaterina Petrikevich
12 Why let the school community decide? The views of
educational leaders 211
Madison Rock
13 Different designs, different outcomes: lessons from school
participatory budgeting in Italy 230
Stefano Stortone and Elisa Biacca
14 School participatory budget in Poland: towards a common
experience for students 250
Mateusz Wojcieszak and Daniel Schugurensky
Foreword: setting the stage for participatory democracy xi
Josh Lerner
Introduction: school participatory budgeting and citizenship
education: where are we at? 1
Tara Bartlett and Daniel Schugurensky
1 School participatory budgeting in every school of the
country? Lessons from a national initiative to spread
citizenship education 23
Pedro Abrantes
2 Participatory budgeting in schools as a tool for racial justice 37
Jonathan E. Collins, Pamela Jennings, Matthew Lioe,
Camila Olander Echavarria, Janelle Haire and Emma Britton Miller
3 Students at the budget table: participatory budgeting in
Chicago public schools 58
Thea Crum and Katherine Faydash
4 Children’s participation in decision-making: when schools
and local governments work together in participatory budgeting 77
Andrés Falck and Marta Barros
5 Motivations for participating in educational participatory
budgeting 99
Alberto Ford, Gisela Signorelli and Patricia Sorribas
6 Developing democratic skills among children and
adolescents through school participatory budgeting: the
case of Mérida, Yucatán 120
Ana Patricia Santamaría García and Alan Andrade
7 Everyone counts: building school and community
citizenship from a Northern European perspective 132
Jez Hall
8 School participatory budgeting in Serbia: from a local
project to a national youth strategy policy 152
Aleksandra Ilijin and Jelena Karać
9 Five lessons on building youth power through school
participatory budgeting 159
Antonnet Johnson
10 Examining the impact of school participatory budgeting:
a psychosocial approach 178
Patricia García-Leiva, Nazly G. Albornoz-Manyoma and
María Soledad Palacios-Gálvez
11 From school participatory budgeting to a youth-led
municipal participatory budgeting: the case of Kutna
Hora, Czech Republic 195
Ekaterina Petrikevich
12 Why let the school community decide? The views of
educational leaders 211
Madison Rock
13 Different designs, different outcomes: lessons from school
participatory budgeting in Italy 230
Stefano Stortone and Elisa Biacca
14 School participatory budget in Poland: towards a common
experience for students 250
Mateusz Wojcieszak and Daniel Schugurensky
