Category: Education
-
Sociocracy and Participation – A Scottish Journey in Further Education (Alastair Davidson)
Description As Scotland looks to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into law, we at the University of Highlands and Islands share Sociocracy as a form of true participation with our Childhood Practice and Health and Social Care students. Students are studying high school-level courses and often feel like they do…
-
Re-inventing Education Together (Ellen Even and Armin Sieber)
Description The Integrale Tagesschule Winterthur is an alternative secondary school located in Winterthur, Switzerland. In this presentation, we will focus on specific steps that enabled ITW to include all people involved in a purpose-driven school development process. Presentation slides Presenter Bio Ellen Even is living with her husband and twins in Zurich, CH. She works at…
-
Running a free school sociocratically – advantages and challenges (Rita Mayrhofer)
Description In this session I will share the case study of a free Montessori school, the first in Austria, where sociocracy has been fully implemented for three years now. We have gained a lot of experience since we started to build the circular structure in 2015 and gradually integrated all involved, which I am happy…
-
Power and trauma: what we learned from 6 years of running a school with sociocracy (Thomas Marshall and Fleur Mathet)
Description We started the first democratic school in France in 2014, La Croisée des Chemins. The project was run with sociocracy from the beginning until the school was closed in 2020. We would like to share what we learned from the challenges of shared power with other adults involved in an alternative education initiative. Presentation…
-
Using Rubrics in Sociocracy Learning (Sebastián Zulueta)
Description We will present the case about using rubrics to improve learning sociocracy in teams and organizations, and we will discuss creating a collaborative effort to share experiences and tools for the future. We will share some examples of rubrics that can be used and will share different ways to work with this tool. Presenter…
-
Erasmus Project: Sociocracy in Schools (Werner Kratochwil)
This presentation was not recorded. To find out more about the presenter’s work please visit: https://soziokratiezentrum.org/profiles/anja-ritter-2-2/ Description First I will present the Erasmus project for sociocracy in schools. Then I will ask for possible discussion topics which would be interesting to discuss in future workshops with members from different sociocratic schools. This could be questions…
-
Collaboration Shapes Education and Young Leaders
by Lisa Praeg Strengthen youth leadership – Open election of class representatives as initiative Do you remember the last time you participated in a democratic election? What did you feel when you put down your vote? Have you been elected, or was someone elected for whom you didn’t vote? A reflection with a class of…
-
Robert’s Rules and Sociocracy: A Comparison
The word democracy comes from the Greek “demos”, and is the shared rule of the people. The original meaning of democracy is a very large umbrella, of which majority rules is only one subset. Sociocracy, on the other hand, derives from “socios,” and means “the rule of the associates.” Sociocracy is one form of democracy…
-
Clarity and empowerment: What is a domain?
—
by
in Audience, Articles, Business, Community, Coop, Delivery element, Education, NGO, Permaculture, TopicDomains in sociocracy – while they are innocent-looking, they are the foundation that makes sociocracy so transformative – with empowerment, and clarity! So what are domains? Each circle has an aim (a description of what they do), and a domain (a statement of what they are responsible for and have authority over). Why is it…
-
Reiterating Sociocratic Models for Culturally-Competent Inclusion, Accessibility, Accountability, and Transparency (Sophie Xu)
Sophie Xu explores how to center historically and currently marginalized voices — especially those of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) — in existing and innovative sociocratic framework. She grapples with and examines the births of sociocracy, its linkage to whiteness, and how to render its core, identifying, and groundbreaking norms (e.g. consent-based decision-making)…
