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Direct linkJantzen, Carl August – Multicultural Education Review, 2020
This paper is an attempt to define the concept of togetherness from two different angles. Initially, it focuses on how togetherness can be seen in relation to students' participation. A central argument is that more focus on togetherness in school can be of great importance for the motivation. Secondly, the article states that we develop our…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, School Culture, Self Concept, Student Participation
Mills, Martin, Ed.; McCluskey, Gillean, Ed. – Trentham Books, 2018
'Alternative education' encompasses a diversity of schooling types and organizations. "International Perspectives on Alternative Education" explores alternative forms of schooling from the position of academics, policy workers, and those working and studying in such schools across the world. The first-hand accounts by those working and…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Academic Achievement
Olsen, Tore Vincents – Comparative Education, 2015
The Danish free school tradition has entailed a large degree of associational freedom for non-governmental schools, religious as well as non-religious. Until the late 1990s, the non-governmental schools were under no strict ideological or pedagogical limitations; they could recruit teachers and students according to their own value base, and were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Politics of Education, Educational Change
Schachter, Ron – District Administration, 2009
Last year, fifth-graders at the Herricks Union Free School District in New Hyde Park, New York, studied the U.S. presidential primaries while following elections in Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Kenya. At South Brunswick High School in Southport, North Carolina, history students discuss battles of the Civil War via live teleconferences with counterparts…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Free Schools, International Programs, Elections
Korsgaard, Ove; Wiborg, Susanne – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2006
The aim of this article is to help clarify N. F. S. Grundtvig's influence on the history of education in Denmark, in particular the comprehensive school. Is this school a result of Grundtvig's achievements? Or is Grundtvig receiving credit due to a misinterpretation of the history of education of the twentieth century? We claim that the latter is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Fuchs, Estelle – Saturday Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Free Schools
Download full textJohnson, Joyce Dinwiddie – 1997
Danish "efterskoles" are "continuation schools" following elementary school--residential schools that allow students aged 14-16 to defer going to high school while they make choices about their educational future. Efterskoles are based on the principles of N.F.S. Grundtvig, who started folk high schools in about 1850 to educate…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Educational Environment, Educational History, Educational Practices
