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Making Teacher Education More Democratic: Incorporating Student Voice and Choice

This paper follows Morrison's "Democratic Classrooms" article, reporting on the author's project to bring democratic education practices to her graduate education course. She outlines the pitfalls and strengths of the experience and gives recommendations to others about how to bring democratic education into teacher education programs. This is the second part of Morrison's two part paper.

Author: Kristan A. Morrison

Year: 2009

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Reference:
Morrison, K. A. (2009). Making teacher education more democratic: Incorporating student voice and choice, part two. Educational Horizons, Winter 2009, 102-115.


Tags for this entry:
democratic education, democratic schooling, freedom based education

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