Educating for Democracy

The Case for Participatory Budgeting in Schools

Edited by Daniel Schugurensky and Tara Bartlett

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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Daniel Schugurensky is a full professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, where he is the founding director of the Participatory Governance Initiative, the director of the master's in social and cultural pedagogy, and the coordinator of the graduate and the undergraduate certificates in social transformation.

Tara Bartlett is a clinical assistant professor at Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Her research and teaching interests focus on public policy and democratic innovations, particularly among youth and within school communities.

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Date published
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN
978-1035302161
Genres
Education and teaching
College or unit
Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, School of Public Affairs, School of Social Transformation

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