This book has been shaped by dialogue with numerous colleagues and by contact with
educational practitioners over a number of years. My thanks go to Elaine Unterhalter …

Social work is indeed mainly appreciated as a profession, a vocation that requires certain
skills and qualifications, rather than as an academic discipline. Slowly, this reality is …

This article grew out of an extensive piece of grounded theory research that explored
students' experiences of democratic education. A small democratic school in the south of …

Purpose The research effort on entrepreneurship education has been mainly for the higher
education settings and on the individual level of analysis. On the contrary, this research …

This article draws on data gathered in Irish primary schools as part of a survey of primary
teachers' understandings of human rights and human rights education. Using these data, the …

School democracy in terms of formal student participation is often expressed through
different types of councils. This requires that these forms of political participation function …

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child provides a platform for children
and young people's1 participation worldwide. Article 12 has been a rallying cry to promote …

Recent moves towards greater pupil participation in school decision-making have in part
been based on instrumental rationales, such as increases in test scores and improvements …

The objective of this study [Susinos, T.(Dir.),'Schools moving towards inclusion: Learning
from the local community, the student voice and educational support'(I+ D+ I, EDU2011 …

Suomalaista kasvatusta kriittisesti tarkastelevat tutkijat ovat huolissaan maamme
yhteiskuntakasvatuksen tilasta. Yhteiskunnallista tiedostamista lisäävät lähestymistavat …