Bicycles & Bricks, Vision & Determination Seminar Five

 'Democratic alternatives in education: Provocations from the Portuguese Modern School Movement.' Dr. Diana Sousa, University College London

suggested readings below (all free access online)

MEM Website

https://www.escolamoderna.pt/quem-somos/  

Sousa, D. (2020) 'Towards a democratic ECEC system’. In Cameron, C. and Moss, P. (Eds)

Transforming Early Childhood in England: Towards a Democratic Education. London, UCL

Press. 151 - 169.

Free download available at:

https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/128464

Freinet, C. (1995) Cooperative Learning and Social Change. Selected Writings of Célestin Freinet (eds.

Clandfield, D. and Sivell J.) Toronto: Our Schools/OurSelves OISE Publishing.

Free download available at:

http://documents.asso-amis-de-freinet.org/docs_adf/cooperative-learning.pdf  

Dewey, J. and Dewey E. (1915) The Schools of Tomorrow. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company

Free download available at: https://archive.org/details/schoolsoftomorro005826mbp/page/n15/mode/2up  

Dewey, J. (1897) ‘My pedagogic creed’. School Journal, 54, 77–80.

Free download available at:

http://dewey.pragmatism.org/creed.htm