This captivating book provides a detailed examination of school participatory budgeting (SPB), a democratic process that combines citizenship education, civic engagement and participatory governance. Presenting insights from SPB processes across the globe, it advocates for the wider rollout of programs which amplify students’ voices, their deliberative capacities and decision-making power while improving school climate and campus infrastructure.
Daniel Schugurensky and Tara Bartlett bring together an international range of practitioners and researchers to analyse the main accomplishments, challenges and lessons learned through the design, implementation, and evaluation of SPB. Chapter authors highlight how SPB is gaining traction and how national and local contexts can explain similarities and differences. The authors contend that this learner-centered pedagogy nurtures student agency, cross-curricular learning, prosocial behaviors and democratic practices
This book is an essential tool for teachers, educational leaders, and scholars from social sciences and related fields interested in implementing SPB and evaluating its impact.
Contents
Foreword: setting the stage for participatory democracy xi
Josh Lerner
Introduction: school participatory budgeting and citizenship
education: where are we at? 1
Tara Bartlett and Daniel Schugurensky
1 School participatory budgeting in every school of the
country? Lessons from a national initiative to spread
citizenship education 23
Pedro Abrantes
2 Participatory budgeting in schools as a tool for racial justice 37
Jonathan E. Collins, Pamela Jennings, Matthew Lioe,
Camila Olander Echavarria, Janelle Haire and Emma Britton Miller
3 Students at the budget table: participatory budgeting in
Chicago public schools 58
Thea Crum and Katherine Faydash
4 Children’s participation in decision-making: when schools
and local governments work together in participatory budgeting 77
Andrés Falck and Marta Barros
5 Motivations for participating in educational participatory
budgeting 99
Alberto Ford, Gisela Signorelli and Patricia Sorribas
6 Developing democratic skills among children and
adolescents through school participatory budgeting: the
case of Mérida, Yucatán 120
Ana Patricia Santamaría García and Alan Andrade
7 Everyone counts: building school and community
citizenship from a Northern European perspective 132
Jez Hall
8 School participatory budgeting in Serbia: from a local
project to a national youth strategy policy 152
Aleksandra Ilijin and Jelena Karać
9 Five lessons on building youth power through school
participatory budgeting 159
Antonnet Johnson
10 Examining the impact of school participatory budgeting:
a psychosocial approach 178
Patricia García-Leiva, Nazly G. Albornoz-Manyoma and
María Soledad Palacios-Gálvez
11 From school participatory budgeting to a youth-led
municipal participatory budgeting: the case of Kutna
Hora, Czech Republic 195
Ekaterina Petrikevich
12 Why let the school community decide? The views of
educational leaders 211
Madison Rock
13 Different designs, different outcomes: lessons from school
participatory budgeting in Italy 230
Stefano Stortone and Elisa Biacca
14 School participatory budget in Poland: towards a common
experience for students 250
Mateusz Wojcieszak and Daniel Schugurensky
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