List of democratic schools
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This is a list of some of the current and former democratic schools around the world. This list also includes sub-branches of democratic schools such as Sudbury schools inspired by the Sudbury Valley School and certain anarchistic free schools that align with the broad principles of democratic education.
Australia[]
New South Wales:
- Currambena School Lane Cove, Sydney NSW
Victoria:
- Preshil Kew, Melbourne VIC
- Alia College Hawthorn East, Melbourne VIC
Queensland:
- Brisbane Independent School Pullenvale, Brisbane QLD
Brazil[]
- Escola Lumiar (São Paulo)
Canada[]
- ALPHA Alternative School (Toronto)
Germany[]
India[]
- Walden's Path (Hyderabad)
Israel[]
- Democratic School of Hadera (Hadera)
New Zealand[]
- Auckland Metropolitan College, Mt. Eden, Auckland--(closed December 2001[1])
- Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery, Christchurch (This is NOT a democratic school but it is a special character school. Their educational principles are very democratic, but they still have grades, exams and a curriculum. The difference between a traditional and Ao Tawhiti school is that kids at Ao Tawhiti school choose the subjects they want to attend.)
- Tamariki School, Christchurch
Portugal[]
- Escola da Ponte (Vila Das AVES)
United Kingdom[]
Currently Open
- Sands School (Ashburton, Devon)
- Summerhill School (Leiston, Suffolk)
Former democratic schools now closed
- Dartington Hall School (Devon)
- Kilquhanity School (Kirkcudbright)
- Kirkdale School (SE London)
- Malting House School (Cambridge)
- Rowen House School (Belper)
- Risinghill School (London)
- Scotland Road Free School (Liverpool)
- The Small School (Hartland, Devon)
- The Family School (SW London)
United States[]
California
- Deep Springs College (Deep Springs)
Illinois
- Shimer College (Chicago)[2]
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
- The Group School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Mission Hill School
- Sudbury Valley School (Framingham)
- Warehouse Cooperative School
New York
- Brooklyn Free School, Brooklyn, f. 2004[3][4]
- Albany Free School (Albany)
- Lehman Alternative Community School (Ithaca)
North Carolina
- Arthur Morgan School (Burnsville)
Ohio
Oregon
- Village Free School (Portland)
- Adams High School (Portland) (closed)
Pennsylvania
- The Circle School (Harrisburg)
- The Delta Program, a program within State College Area High School (State College)
- Philadelphia Free School
- The Sphere College Project (Phoenixville)
- Three Rivers Village School (Pittsburgh)
- Upattinas School and Resource Center (Glenmoore) (closed)
Virginia
- The New School of Northern Virginia (Fairfax)
Washington
- The Clearwater School (Bothell)
West Virginia
- The Highland School (Highland)
See also[]
- Democratic education
- List of Sudbury schools
- Collaborative learning
- Constructionist learning
- Rouge Forum
- Lists of schools
- List of Montessori schools
References[]
- ^ "Daring to be different: The rise and fall of Auckland Metropolitan College". March 25, 2004. Archived from the original on March 25, 2004.
- ^ "The Shimer College Assembly". Blog.shimer.edu. 2010-02-08. Archived from the original on 2012-05-17. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
- ^ Gell, Aaron (May 7, 2006). "Land of the Free". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 26, 2015. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
- ^ Kavner, Lucas (November 30, 2012). "At Brooklyn Free School, A Movement Reborn With Liberty And No Testing For All". The Huffington Post. AOL. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
Further reading[]
- Leue, Mary M., ed. (2000). Challenging the Giant: The best of [SKOLE], the Journal of Alternative Education. Vol. 4. Down-to-Earth Books. ISBN 1-878115-13-8. OCLC 250561130.
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