Something wasn’t right … democratic experiences for children in a Scottish primary school
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Volume 64 Number 3 (2022)
Something wasn’t right … democratic experiences for children in a Scottish primary school
Andrew Killen, Chris Holligan pages 140‑153
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2022.64.3.140
Abstract
Today at a staff meeting I briefly discussed the importance of increasing democracy in school. In particular I encouraged discussion on the possibilities and challenges of children having increased autonomy and becoming more involved in decision making processes. Normally teachers are polite, but noncommittal when I broach this subject, but today there was an air of resistance to any notion of giving children more democracy. It was the most direct I had been about changing our existing structures to ones that were more democratic. (Research diary entry February 2019)
To cite this article
Andrew Killen, Chris Holligan (2022) Something wasn’t right … democratic experiences for children in a Scottish primary school , FORUM, 64(3), 140-153 . https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2022.64.3.140