International Democratic Education Conference

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The International Democratic Education Conference ( IDEC for short ) is an annual international conference on the subject of democratic education . It is organized every year in a different country by a democratic school or organization from the field of democratic education.

The participants of the IDEC include employees and especially students of democratic schools, representatives of organizations, researchers, authors and other interested parties.

The aim of IDEC is, on the one hand, to offer democratic schools a forum in which they can exchange ideas and support one another in case of problems. On the other hand, the IDEC should promote the idea of ​​democratic education and make it better known to the public.

At the IDEC 2002 in New Zealand the following self-image was formulated:

"The various participants in democratic education are united in upholding the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to make it the primary basis for everyday practice in all learning environments."

In 2005, the participants in Berlin agreed on the following resolution :

"We believe that wherever education is concerned, young people have the right
  • to decide individually what, how, where, when and with whom to learn
  • to be equally involved in decisions about how their organizations - especially their schools - are run, whether rules and sanctions are necessary and, if so, which ones. "

history

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In 1992 the Democratic School of Hadera in Israel won the President's Education Award, which is considered the most prestigious award in the field of education in Israel. Representatives of the Democratic School of Hadera and other democratic schools were out in 1993 by Jerusalem invited to a conference entitled "Education for Democracy in a multi-cultural society". The students and teachers of the democratic schools were disappointed with this conference because they had almost no opportunity to contribute to the conference. Therefore they organized their own two-day conference at the Democratic School of Hadera. The participants found the conference so stimulating that they agreed to meet every year.

In 1994 the meeting, then known as the Hadera Conference , took place at the Sands School in Ashburton , England .

In 1995 the school for pupils at the WUK in Vienna hosted the conference.

In 1996 the Hadera conference took place again in Hadera .

In 1997 the conference, which was attended by around 50 people at the time, was held again in the Sands School in England and was largely organized by students. At this meeting the name "Hadera Conference" was changed to "International Democratic Education Conference".

In 1998 the conference was hosted by the Stork Family School in Vinnitsa, Ukraine.

In 1999 the IDEC was organized in the Summerhill School in England to support the school , which was then threatened with closure by the Ministry of Education.

IDEC 2000 in Tokyo was the largest to date with around 1000 participants. It was largely organized by the students.

In 2001 the IDEC was to take place in Israel and Palestine . Due to the outbreak of the second Intifada , only a more regionally oriented meeting took place, in which mainly Israelis, Palestinians and Germans took part.

IDEC 2002 took place at the Tamariki School in Christchurch , New Zealand .

In 2003 the IDEC took place in the USA for the first time . It was hosted by the Albany Free School and the Alternative Education Resource Organization in Troy , New York State . Around 450 participants from 25 countries and 85 schools took part.

IDEC 2004 took place in Bhubaneswar , India .

IDEC 2005 took place for the first time in Germany from July 30th to August 7th, 2005 at the FEZ in Berlin . It was supported by the child rights project KRÄ.TZÄ. and the school for adult education . There were 200 participants from 28 countries. In order to bring the idea of ​​democratic schools into society, the conference was open to the public on August 4th and 5th at the Humboldt University in Berlin . More than 200 other teachers, students, politicians, experts and journalists were able to hear lectures and get into conversation with representatives of democratic schools. The conference was opened by Thomas Krüger , President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education . Greetings came from the Berlin Senator for Education, Klaus Böger . In 2008 there was a conference focused on Europe for the first time (European Democratic Education Conference; EUDEC for short , see explanations in European Democratic Education Community ). It took place in Leipzig .

In 2006 the conference was organized by the Australasian Association for Progressive and Alternative Education in Sydney .

In 2007 the IDEC took place from September 8th to 16th during the World Education Forum in Mogi das Cruzes , Brazil .

IDEC 2008 was organized by the Society for the Advancement of Non-coercive Education (SANE) in Vancouver , Canada .

IDEC 2009 was supposed to take place in South Korea , but was canceled at short notice due to the swine flu . Some international participants then met the organizers in a small informal setting.

The 18th IDEC was hosted in April 2010 by the Institute for Democratic Education in Tel Aviv , Israel.

In 2011 the IDEC took place together with the EUDEC conference as IDEC @ EUDEC in River Dart Country Park, Devon, England. The conference was mainly organized by former students from the Sands School.

IDEC 2012 took place from March 24th to 31st, 2012 at Nuestra Escuela in Caguas, Puerto Rico . It had about 800 participants from more than thirty different countries.

The conference venue for IDEC 2013 was Boulder (Colorado) in the USA.

In 2014 the IDEC took place in South Korea, 2015 in New Zealand.

IDEC 2016 took place together with EUDEC 2016 in Finland (IDEC @ EUDEC 2016).

IDEC 2017 took place again at the Democratic School of Hadera in Israel. The speakers included Sir Ken Robinson and Sugata Mitra .

IDEC 2018 was the 25th conference and took place in Bengaluru, India.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j What does IDEC mean? Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Conference report (English). Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ program. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ IDEC 2005. Accessed April 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) Opening speech by the President of the bpb, Thomas Krüger, at the EUDEC congress on July 31, 2008 in Leipzig. Retrieved April 23, 2019 . "For the first time we were partners of the democratic schools at IDEC, the 13th international conference in 2005 in Berlin."
  6. ↑ Speech by Thomas Krüger, President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education, at the opening of the public part of the 13th International Democratic Education Conference at the Humboldt University in Berlin on August 4, 2005. Retrieved on April 24, 2019 .
  7. ^ Greetings from the Senator for Education, Youth and Sport, Klaus Böger. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Freie Schule Leipzig at the IDEC in Vancouver. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
  9. ^ IDEC 2009 in South Korea. In: www.e-idec.org. Archived from the original (English, Korean, Japanese, Esperanto).;
  10. ^ IDEC 2010 in Tel Aviv, Israel. In: www.2010.e-idec.org. Archived from the original on April 6, 2010 (English, Hebrew).;
  11. ↑ Report of IDEC 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
  12. ↑ IDEC 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
  13. ↑ IDEC 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .