Speaker: Professor Michael Fielding (University of London) Title: Beyond Student Voice: Patterns of Partnership and the Demands of Deep Democracy
This session offers an intellectual typology and practical tool patterns of partnership intended to assist in the process of intergenerational learning and democratic development.
A Graduate School of Education seminar
Speaker(s)
Professor Michael Fielding (Institute of Education, University of London)
Date
11 March 2014
Time
17:00
Place
Baring Court 114
If we really believe in democracy, we need to develop schools that take seriously Francis Williams' insistence that Democracy is not only something to fight for; it is something to fight with. The student voice movement offers a promising starting point to reflect on and develop new possibilities and approaches to learning, both in its more restricted formal modes and in its broader more openly democratic senses.