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Learning Democracy by Doing - Alternative Practices in Citizenship Learning and Participatory Democracy

01.01.2008

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Toronto

Kanada
tlc2008@oise.utoronto.ca

h t t p : / / t l c . o i s e . u t o r o n t o . c a / w o r d p r e s s / c o n f e r e n c e s / o c t o b e r 2 0 0 8

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Despite the surge in the practice of the rapidly expanding fields of participatory democracy and citizenship learning, this remains a largely under-researched and under-theorized field, where networks for knowledge-sharing and collaboration remain nascent. This international conference will contribute to address this gap by bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in the theoretical and practical intersections between social action learning and participatory democracy, and their contribution to nurturing an enlightened and active citizenship. We are interested in attracting presentations that examine past or present innovative and progressive practices of transformative citizenship learning and participatory democracy in different settings including formal and non-formal educational institutions, civil society organizations, municipal governments and workplaces. We encourage presentations that pay attention to the strengths as well as to the weaknesses of those initiatives, placing them in their particular social and historical contexts.