Scandinavian experiments in democratic education

This article is the first of four articles exploring democratic schools co-founded by teenage students in Norway and Sweden. Our larger project explores relationship between democracy education educational dialogism. Both dialogism are partially rooted idea that should be a personal meaning-making practice where participants can create organize their lives ways make sense to them explore interests, values, desires. We describe processes founding two – one Oslo, Norway, other Gothenburg, Sweden which practiced right governance. process these against background students’ movements late 1960s 1970s social political conditions at time. perspectives on possibility, desirability, legitimacy voices ethical-ontological dialogues jointly examine relationships with world, others, themselves. Further, we forms school governance Norwegian Swedish created identified tensions appeared individual rights ownership learning, teachers’ teaching, conventional normative policies