In this book, educators and researchers from the LabSchoolsEurope project illustrate and elaborate on what it means to be a European Lab School. They present their schools and share how they bring the laboratory school framework to life while also taking individual needs, local conditions and the national policy-making environment into account.
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Contact: Benedict Kurz & Christian Timo Zenke
The Special Issue Doing Democratic Education in School and University is part of the series Forschungsperspektiven (Research Perspectives) of the University College of Teacher Education Vienna. This volume highlights democratic education as a task for schools and universities and aims at demonstrating a multi-perspective approach. In it, authors from across Europe share valuable insights and hands-on approaches that can inspire and motivate.
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Contact: Harald Knecht & Gabriele Kulhanek-Wehlend
Telling Stories About Teaching and Research is dedicated to sharing small anecdotes that illustrate the daily practices at each Lab School. Based on the educators’ personal experiences with teaching and research, this reader gives an insight into the positive experiences, fortunate events, oddities, and difficulties of being a part of a Lab School.
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Contact: Benedict Kurz & Christian Timo Zenke
The book Unleashing Children’s Voices in New Democratic Primary Education centres around the idea that children need to be able to actively participate in democratic solutions. To this end, this book includes concrete examples from professional educators and researchers across the globe who are demonstrating how primary schools can nurture the conditions for new democratic education through empowering educators’ and children’s voices and agency. Every school from the LabSchoolsEurope project contributed a chapter to this volume.
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Contact: James Biddulph & Luke Rolls
