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Podcast: Human Restoration Project
Episode: 58: Student Government and a Democratic Education w/ Carla Marschall & StuVoice, Merrit Jones
Description: We often think of democratic education as student government - where students are sadly often pigeon-held into a glorified party planning committee with very little power. But what if things could be different? First, we could establish democratic norms in our classroom, where students are on equal footing with us to discussion curriculum and classroom changes - where the topics we discuss in class and the assignments that are given are a contract between the two of us, and our job is educators is to support, rather than tell what to do.Then, what if we build...