Educating for Democracy

Edited by Daniel Schugurensky, Director, Participatory Governance Initiative, Professor at School of Public Affairs and School of Social Transformation. Arizona State University and Tara Bartlett, Senior Research Analyst, Participatory Governance Initiative, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, US

• 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

‘Educating for Democracy: The Case for Participatory Budgeting in Schools is a fascinating collection of essays that recentres the discourse of citizenship education, especially at a time when many countries are facing different manifestations of democratic backsliding.’