IDEN

Name:    Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)

Address:  417 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577, USA

Contact:   Jerry Mintz

Email:    jerryAERO@aol.com

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:    Asociacion 'El cohete y la estrella'

Address:  c/ Cristo de la Victoria s/n, 28011 Madrid, Spain

Contact:   Heike Freire

Email:    mayofreire@yahoo.es

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:    president@aapae.edu.au

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:    sergiostorch@gmail.com 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!

Name:    Building Bridges Project

Contact:   Mara List

Email:    maralist@hotmail.com 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:    :info@freie-alternativschulen.de

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.

Name:    CWC

Address:  303/2 L. B. Shastri Nagar Layout, Vimanapura, Bangalore - 560 017, Karnataka, India

Contact:   S. S. Venkatesh

Email:    cwc@pobox.com

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:    antonia@skoldemokrati.fi

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:    info@korczak.nl, 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)

Address:  3rd Floor, Downstream Building, 1 London Bridge, London SE1 9BG

Contact:   Head Office

Email:    support@studentvoice.co.uk

Telephone:    44 201 022 1910

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 2008 (European Democratic Education Conference)

Address:  Paul-Gruner-Str. 33    04107 Leipzig/Germany new entry in this list

Contact:   Leslie Ocker

Email:   info@eudec2008.org

Telephone:    +49-341-9261877

Website:   www.eudec2008.org/

Name:    Fertile Grounds Project new entry in this list

Address:  600 W. 111th St. #12A, New York, NY 10025

Contact:   Jonah Canner

Email:   jonah.canner@gmail.com

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:    Iederwisj

Address:  S. L. van Alterenlaan 26, The Netherlands

Contact:   Jochem van der Padt

Email:    info@iederwijs.nl

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:    Institute for Democratic Education

Address:  11 Hehadar Street, Hadera, Israel

Contact:   Rani Abramovich

Email:    raniab@walla.co.il

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 Democratic Education Conference 2005 (IDEC 2005)

Address:  c/o Netzwerk Spiel/Kultur e.V., Dunckerstrasse 11, D10437 Berlin, Germany

Contact:   Mike Weimann

Email:    info@idec2005.org

Telephone:    49 30 40393340

Website:    www.idec2005.org

Number of Students:    Age range

Languages:    German, English

Principles:    Organisers of the 2005 IDEC.

Name:    International Democratic Education Conference 2006 (IDEC 2006)

Address:  8 Galali Place, Aranda, ACT 2614, Australia

Contact:   Cecelia Bradley

Email:    cecelia.b@bigpond.com

Telephone:    61 2 62513136

Website:    www.idec2006.org

Number of Students:    Age range

Languages:    English

Principles:    Organisers of the 2006 IDEC.

Name:    International Democratic Education Conference 2007 ( IDEC 2007 )

Address:  Brazil

Contact:   Carol Sumie

Email:    casumie@gmail.com

Number of Students:    Age range

Languages:    Portuguese, English

Principles:    Organisers of the 2007 IDEC.

Name:    International Democratic Education Conference 2008 ( IDEC 2008 )

Address:  Canada

Contact:   David Gagnon

Email:    idecvancouver@gmail.com

Website:    http://www.idec2008.org/

Principles:    Organisers of the 2008 IDEC.

See also:   EUDEC 2008 (European Democratic Education Conference)

Name:    Kraetzae

Address:  Dunckerstrasse 11, 10437 Berlin, Germany

Contact:  

Email:    kraetzae@kraetzae.de

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:    NCACS (National Coalition of Alternative and Community Schools)

Address:  

Contact:   Delphine Decaen

Email:    ncacs1@earthlink.net

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

Address:  Spittelberggasse 5/1/1, A-1070 Wien, Austria

Contact:   Momo Kreutz

Email:    office@unsereschulen.at

Telephone:    43 1526 94 400

Website:    www.unsereschulen.at

Number of Students:    630 in 25 schools Age range 3 - 18

Languages:    German

Principles:    A network of Austrian schools committed to self-directed learning. The Institut fuer demokratische Lernkultur, which is associated with the Netzwerk, is particularly interested in international projects.

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:    Antonia@obessu.org

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:    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:    Phoenix Education Trust

Address:  The Old School, School Road, Stokeinteignhead, Devon TQ12 4QE, UK

Contact:   Anna Leatherdale

Email:    info@phoenixeducation.co.uk

Telephone:    44 (0)1626 873178

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:    archive@pettarchiv.org.uk

Telephone:    44 1242 620125

Website:    www.pettarchiv.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:    hsinger@politeia.org.br

Telephone:    + 55 11 3586-1916

Website:    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:  Proyecto Amigo New details

Address:   Jr. Alfono Ugarte 854, Huamachuco, La Libertad, Peru

Contact:  Nury García

Email:    proyecto_amigo@speedy.com.pe

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.

Name:    tologo verlag

Address:  Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 51, 04105 Leipzig

Contact:   Sören Kirchner

Email:    info@tologo.de  

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:    zeca@superig.com.br  

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.