Educating for Democracy

The Case for Participatory Budgeting in Schools

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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 practicesThis 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-08-23
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035302161

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ContentsForeword: setting the stage for participatory democracy xiJosh LernerIntroduction: school participatory budgeting and citizenshipeducation: where are we at? 1Tara Bartlett and Daniel Schugurensky1 School participatory budgeting in every school of thecountry? Lessons from a national initiative to spreadcitizenship education 23Pedro Abrantes2 Participatory budgeting in schools as a tool for racial justice 37Jonathan E. Collins, Pamela Jennings, Matthew Lioe,Camila Olander Echavarria, Janelle Haire and Emma Britton Miller3 Students at the budget table: participatory budgeting inChicago public schools 58Thea Crum and Katherine Faydash4 Children’s participation in decision-making: when schoolsand local governments work together in participatory budgeting 77Andrés Falck and Marta Barros5 Motivations for participating in educational participatorybudgeting 99Alberto Ford, Gisela Signorelli and Patricia Sorribas6 Developing democratic skills among children andadolescents through school participatory budgeting: thecase of Mérida, Yucatán 120Ana Patricia Santamaría García and Alan Andrade7 Everyone counts: building school and communitycitizenship from a Northern European perspective 132Jez Hall8 School participatory budgeting in Serbia: from a localproject to a national youth strategy policy 152Aleksandra Ilijin and Jelena Karać9 Five lessons on building youth power through schoolparticipatory budgeting 159Antonnet Johnson10 Examining the impact of school participatory budgeting:a psychosocial approach 178Patricia García-Leiva, Nazly G. Albornoz-Manyoma andMaría Soledad Palacios-Gálvez11 From school participatory budgeting to a youth-ledmunicipal participatory budgeting: the case of KutnaHora, Czech Republic 195Ekaterina Petrikevich12 Why let the school community decide? The views ofeducational leaders 211Madison Rock13 Different designs, different outcomes: lessons from schoolparticipatory budgeting in Italy 230Stefano Stortone and Elisa Biacca14 School participatory budget in Poland: towards a commonexperience for students 250Mateusz Wojcieszak and Daniel Schugurensky

‘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.’