The Council of Europe (CoE) is holding a conference to launch its ‘Free to Speak; Safe to Learn – Democratic Schools for All’ project at the Wergeland Centre in Oslo – Education Revolution – Alternative Education Resource Organization

FROM DERRY HANNAM – Another piece of news from Europe. The Council of Europe (CoE) is holding a conference to launch its ‘Free to Speak; Safe to Learn – Democratic Schools for All’ project at the Wergeland Centre in Oslo this week. This project is an offshoot of the long-running Education for Democratic Citizenship/Human Rights Education (EDC/HRE) for which I used to work when a UK school inspector some years ago. On behalf of EUDEC Council I have been negotiating with CoE that the conference would be greatly enhanced if some of the very democratic schools from EUDEC’s network were to be invited. They listened and the Netzwerk Schule, Berlin has been invited to join 10 state schools from across Europe. This will be the first time that a EUDEC network democratic school has participated with a Europe wide gathering of progressively inclined state schools to discuss how democracy and human rights can be better developed as day-to -day practice in schools. There will be an official post-conference report that I will post here in due course.

Here are the attending schools –

The schools selected to participate in the campaign launch conference in Oslo, from 14 to 16 November,
are: