Name: Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
Address: 417 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577, USA
Contact: Jerry Mintz
Email:
Telephone: 1 800 769 4161 or 1 516 621 2195
Website: www.EducationRevolution.org
Number of Students: Age range
Languages: English
Principles: Publishing a magazine, networking, running conferences, providing information. |
Name: ANEN
Address: 1 Rue des Nefliers, 31400 Toulouse, France
Contact: Jean-Pierre Quayret
Email: updated details
Website:
Number of Students: Ten schools
Languages: French
Principles: The learner is in charge: the adult watches, helps, guides and supports. Democratic decision-making, self-evaluation, co-operation, alternation of individual and group work. |
Name: Asociacion 'El cohete y la estrella'
Address: c/ Cristo de la Victoria s/n, 28011 Madrid, Spain
Contact: Heike Freire
Email:
Telephone: 34 6255 18720 or 9146 37328
Number of Students: Age range
Languages: Spanish
Principles: |
Name: Australasian Association for Progressive and Alternative Education (AAPAE)
Address: 8 Galali Place, Aranda, ACT 2614, Australia
Contact: Cecelia Bradley
Email:
Website: www.aapae.edu.au/ updated details
Telephone: 61 2 62513136
Number of Students: 400 students in 12 schools Age range
Languages: English
Principles: AAPAE is a network and an associationn which promotes and supports individuals, regardless of age, schools and educational groups who believe in and act according to the principles of progressive, alternative and democratic education. |
Name: Brazilian Association for Knowledge Management (SBGC)
Address: Rua Teodoro Sampaio, 417 cj 111 05405-000 São Paulo-SP Brasil
Contact: Sérgio Storch
Email: New details
Telephone: 55-11-3666.9005
Website: http://www.sbgc.org.br
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Principles: To promote the adoption of concepts and practices of knowledge management in business, governments and civil society An excellent 2008 for you and all IDEN members!
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Name: Building Bridges Project
Contact: Mara List
Email: updated details
Website: http://www.worldyl.org
Languages: Hebrew, Arabic, German
Principles: German, Polish and Arab and Jewish Israeli teachers and young people meet regularly to dispel preconceived stereotypes, reduce feelings of fear, hatred, and alienation and work towards a future based on mutual respect between Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens. |
Name: Bundesverband Freier Alternativschulen (BFAS) new details
(National Association of Free Alternative Schools)
Address: Brandenburger Str. 5, 34131 Kassel, Germany
Contact: Mario Hoebel
Email:
Website: www.freie-alternativschulen.de
Telephone: Tel. +49 561 3161778
Fax. +49 561 34725
Number of Students: 84 schools, 14 initiatives with about 5000 students
Age range: 5 - 16
Languages: German, English
Principles: Platform for communication and support among the German free schools. Annual meeting.
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Name: CONNECT
Address: 12 Brooke Street, Northcote, 3070 Victoria, Australia
Contact: Roger Holdsworth
Email:
Telephone: 61 3 94899052
Number of Students: Age range
Languages: English
Principles: Magazine devoted to student participation - encouraging people to do more than they do at present. |
Name: CWC
Address: 303/2 L. B. Shastri Nagar Layout, Vimanapura, Bangalore - 560 017, Karnataka, India
Contact: S. S. Venkatesh
Email:
Telephone: 91 90 5234370
Website: www.workingchild.org
Number of Students: 14,000 + Age range 0 - 18
Languages: Kannada, English, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi
Principles: Empowerment of working children. Implementation of Appropriate Education Programme. Impacting on children's rights and child labour at all levels - local to international. Child labour free and child-friendly panchayats. |
Name: DISKO Demokrati i skolan (Democracy in school) New entry in this list
Address: Nylandsgatan 17 B, PB 235, 00121 Helsinki, Finland
Contact:
Email:
Telephone: +358 40 59 27 608
Website: www.skoldemokrati.fi
Number of Students: Age range
Languages: Swedish
Principles: ‘Demokrati i skolan’ is a 3-year project aiming at developing tools and methods to use when creating a more democratic school. The tools are developed in close cooperation with 7 primary and secondary schools in Finland. |
Name: Dutch Janusz Korczak Association
Address: PO Box 70048, 1007 KA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contact: Joop Berding
Email: , jwa.berding.wanadoo.nl
Telephone: 31 20 6447018
Website: www.korczak.nl
Number of Students: Age range
Languages: Dutch, English
Principles: The promotion of respectful, democratic education as proposed by Janusz Korczak. |
Name: ESSA (English Secondary Students' Association) Updated Details
Address: 15 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PJ
Contact: Head Office
Email:
Telephone: 44 0208 981 5104
Website: www.studentvoice.co.uk
Number of Students: 1000 and growing Age range 11 - 19
Languages: English
Principles: ESSA represents secondary students in England. ESSA works to provide training and empower students to become involved in decision-making in their schools. ESSA works in partnership with other organisations to bring studetns' views to local and national policy-makers. |
Name: EUDEC (European Democratic Education Community)
Address: Paul-Gruner-Str. 33 04107 Leipzig/Germany new entry in this list
Contact: Leslie Ocker
Email:
Telephone: +49-341-9261877
Website: www.eudec.org |
Name: Fertile Grounds Project new entry in this list
Address: 600 W. 111th St. #12A, New York, NY 10025
Contact: Jonah Canner
Email:
Telephone: 1 917.363.3955
Website: www.fertilegrounds.org
Languages: English
Principles: The Fertile Grounds Project works in schools (The Hallway Project & Survival Project) and outside of them (Camp Kadia) with the goal of creating sustainable, interdependent, communities of young people who support each other as they effect change in their own lives. |
Name: Hindu Vidypeeth-Nepal new entry in this list
Address: Hindu Vidyapeeth-Nepal, Balkumari, Lalitpur, PO Box: 6807,
Kathmandu, Nepal
Email:
or
Telephone: 00977-1-5527924 or, 5006125
Website: www.hvpuk.org.uk
Number of Student/members: 500 Age range 3 - 16
Languages: Nepali, English
Principles: Hindu Vidyapeeth-Nepal (HVP) is an educational trust run on a non-profit basis. In an age of growing materialism, fundamentalism and intolerance, HVP is working to bring up a generation of people who have holistic leadership qualities and clear visions and who can develop human virtues within and around them such as peace, harmony and love in the form of international brotherhood and co-existence. |
Name: Iederwisj
Address: S. L. van Alterenlaan 26, The Netherlands
Contact: Jochem van der Padt
Email:
Telephone: 31 348550110
Website: www.iederwijs.nl
Number of Students: 12 schools, 250 students Age range 4 - 18
Languages: Dutch, English
Principles: Learn what you think is important to you. (See www.iederwijs.nl) |
Name: Initiative Bildung in Zukunft (IBiZ) Updated details
Email:
Website: www.bildung-in-zukunft.de
Number of members: 4
Age range : 26-29
Languages: German/English
Principles: Researching and developing educational systems towards democracy
Regional activities in and around Leipzig.
Collecting and publishing news and links on democracy and political education in schools
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Name: Institute for Collaborative Empowerment
Address: 792 Jefferson Avenue Suite #2
Contact: Monique C. Scott
Email:
Telephone: 1 718 541 4201 or 1 718 573 1388
Number of Students: 15 Age range 15 - 18
Languages: English
Principles: Community education alternatives: youth leadership: popular education. |
Name: Institute for Democratic Education
Address: 11 Hehadar Street, Hadera, Israel
Contact: Rani Abramovich
Email:
Telephone: 972 6 620 1272
Website: www.democratic.co.il
Number of Students: Age range
Languages: Hebrew, English
Principles: Working with the Israeli Ministry of Education to assist in the democratisation of Israeli schools. Training expert consultants for the implementation of the ideas of Democratic Education all around the world. |
Name: International Demoratic Education Conference 2012
Address: Nuestra Escuela, 352 San Claudio Avenue #369, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926
Contact:
or Marilu Idec
Press Contact: Andrea Barrientos at and + 787.764.6490.
Website: http://IDEC2012.org
Conference dates: March 23 - 31, 2012 |
Name: Kraetzae
Address: Dunckerstrasse 11, 10437 Berlin, Germany
Contact:
Email:
Telephone: 49 30 4479722
Website: www.kraetzae.de
Number of Students: 20 Age range 14 - 20
Languages: German, English
Principles: Positive action for equal rights for children, including the right to vote. Campaigning for free education to be a right but not compulsory. International visits. |
Name: Libertarian Education
Address: 846 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX, UK
Contact:
Email:
Website: www.libed.org.uk
Number of Students: Age range
Languages: English
Principles: Libertarian Education is a small independent publishing collective which for the last quarter of a century has been campaigning for the development of non-authoritarian initiatives in education. |
Name: Narowal Rural Development Program (NRDP)
Address: Chowk Jassar Bypass, Circular Road, Narowal (Punjab) Pakistan
Contact: Mirza Moqeem Baig, Executive Director
Email:
Telephone: +92-542-413085 mobile # +92-300-8412342
Languages: English
Principles:
- Education – established 10 community model schools in the remotest rural areas with 2800 boys & girls students
- Democratic rights & education
- Health
- Women rights & empowerment
- Sustainable livelihood & enterprise development
- Human & institutional development
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Name: NCACS (National Coalition of Alternative and Community Schools)
Address:
Contact: Delphine Decaen
Email:
Telephone: 1734 668 9171 or 888 7719171 in North America
Website: http://ncacs.org
Number of Students: 15,000 in 250 unique contacts Age range all ages
Languages: English
Principles: The NCACS's mission is to unite and organize a grassroots movement of learners and learning communities dedicated to participant control and the elimination of human and ecological oppression. |
Name: Netzwerk Freie Schulen - Bundesdachverband für selbstbestimmtes Lernen updated details
Address: Spittelberggasse 5/1/1, A-1070 Wien, Austria
Contact: Momo Kreutz
Email:
Telephone: +43- 1-526 94 40-00 Fax: +43-1-526 94 40-10
Website: www.unsereschulen.at
Number of Students: 1250 in 45 schools Age range 5 - 18
Languages: German
Principles: A network of Austrian schools committed to self-directed learning with different pedagogical concepts. In all schools parents, teachers and pupils have to be allowed to take part in decision-making and the structures in the schools have to be democratic. Twice a year we have conferences.
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Name: OBESSU (Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions)
Address: Rue de la Sablonniére 20, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium updated details
Contact: Antonia Wulff, board member of OBESSU
Email:
Telephone: + 358 40 59 27 608
Website: www.obessu.org
Number of Students/members: around 25 national unions of school students
Languages: English
Principles: OBESSU is the only European organisation representing school students, gathering more than twenty-five national school student unions from all over Europe. Since its creation in 1975, OBESSU has been working for the rights of students all over Europe. |
Name: Phoenix Education Trust
Address: Third Floor, Citysicde House, 40 Adler Street, London E1 1EE
Contact: Jon Teckman
Email:
Telephone: 44 (0) 208 150 3432
Website: www.phoenixeducation.co.uk
Number of Students: Age range
Languages: English
Principles: To promote democratic education and student voice. |
Name: Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre (PETT)
Address: Church Lane, Toddington, Cheltenham, GL54 5DQ, UK
Contact: Craig Fees
Email:
Telephone: 44 1242 620125
Website: http://www.archive.pettrust.org.uk/
Number of Students: Age range
Languages: English, Spanish, some Russian and French
Principles: An archive, research library and study centre with a specialist interest in progressive/alternative/democratic education. Active oral history programme. Facilities for residential or day conferences and meetings (including potential for camping). |
Name: Politeia Democratic Education (formerly IDEB) Updated Details
Address: Rua Lincoln Albuquerque, 328 05004-010 São Paulo – SP - Braz
Contact: Helena Singer
Email:
Telephone: + 55 11 3586-1916
Website: http://www.politeia.org.br
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English
Principles: Politeia is an association of educators, researchers and activists interested in promoting democracy in the various dimensions of social life through Education. In order to achieve this goal, Politeia focuses on research, development and dissemination of Democratic Education ideas in Brazil. |
Name: Positive News and Youth Views e-zine
Address: c/o Eric Schneider, PO Box 580119, 10411 Berlin, Germany
Contact: Eric Schneider
Email:
Telephone: 49 30 69536469
Number of Students: Age range
Languages: 25 languages
Principles: PNYV is an e-zine for Youth Leadership and Changemaking. This Official Project of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005 - 2014 makes the best of the worldwide sustainability movement available, accessible and applicable in schools. |
Name: RAA Brandenburg
Contact: Katrin Osterloh and Maggie Peine
Address: RAA Brandenburg, Benzstr. 11/12, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
Email: &
Website: www.raa-brandenburg.de
Languages: German, English, Italian, Spanish, (French, Norwegian)
Principles:
Focus: promoting democratic education in regular schools in rural areas with a low percentage of immigrants in the Federal State of Brandenburg
Activities: Particularly trainings for influencers in the field of democratic education,
study trips to democratic schools abroad, regional networks of regular schools interested in democratic education, democratic education programmes e.g. “Service Leraning”, “Hands across the campus…”, conferences etc.
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Name: Room 13 Studio Network
Contact: Claire Gibb
Email:
Website: www.room13scotland.com
Number of Students: Studios in 11 different countries Age range Up to 18
Languages: Appropriate to the different countries
Principles: Young artists work with the best possible materials alongside professional adult artists and musicians. They take their work seriously and there is constant open discussion of ideas of all kinds. Each young management team meets its own running costs (see Room 13 under Schools). |
Name: Rural Women’s Network Nepal (RUWON Nepal) New details
Contact: P. O. Box: 20706, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email:
Telephone: +977 01 4822905
Website: www.ruwonnepal.org.np
Languages: Nepali, English
Principles: Children’s participation in home, school and society, capacity development, group discussion and work, democratic decision-making, self-evaluation, co-operation and socialization |
Name: The Online Directory of Democratic Education new details
Contact: Dana M. Bennis, Isaac Graves
Email: www.democraticeducation.com/contact.htm
Website: www.democraticeducation.com/contact.htm
Languages: English
Principles: We aim to list every known school, educational program and supporting organization involved in education where students are respected as equals and have the right to control their own learning. We will include an in-depth reading list for further research. |
Name: Tologo Verlag
Address: Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 51, 04105 Leipzig
Contact: Sören Kirchner
Email:
Telephone: 49 341 2562069
Website: www.tologo.de
Languages: German, English
Principles: Der tologo verlag hat sich auf Literatur und Medien in den
Themenbereichen Freie, selbstbestimmte Entwicklung und Freie, demokratische Bildung spezialisert.
The tologo publishing house specialises in literature and media on the themes of free, self-determined development and free democratic education. |
Name: Zeca Sampaio New entry in this list
Address: R. Ricardo Pinto, 130 Santos SP Brazil
Email:
Telephone: +55 13 – 3238-1517
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English
Principles: Teacher at art-education at University Santa Cecília, Santos. Director and actor of a street-theater group. Writer: Educação e Liberdade em Wilhelm Reich (Education and freedom in Wilhelm Reich): Agora é minha vez, book for children: O ator vivo (The living actor), on acting. |
Name: Proyecto Amigo New details
Address: Jr. Alfono Ugarte 854, Huamachuco, La Libertad, Peru
Contact: Nury García
Email:
Telephone: 00514605841
Website: www.marcelino.org
Number of Students: 1,400
Age range: 6-20
Languages: Español
Principles: - Escuela Alternativa Siembra : Red educativa con niños, adolescentes trabajadores campesinos.
- Derechos Humanos: ecosistema sano, niños trabajadores, victimas de violencia armada, acceso a justicia.
-Universidad Popular: Con organizaciones sociales de base.
Principios de educación popular, teologia de la liberación, derechos humanos y ecología humana. |
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