The purpose of this study was to assess the moral atmosphere of Maharishi International University/ University High School (MIU/UHS). A comparison was made between MIUIUHS and 1) the students' previous schools attended before enrolling in MIU/UHS and 2) the participatory democratic schools of Higgins, Power, and Kohlberg's (1981) study. Moral atmosphere is defined as consisting of the individua...

Small-scale fisheries face a suite of multi-level challenges, making the reliance on centralized governance approaches and self-governance alone unlikely to lead to long enduring solutions. Although co-management has been long proposed as a promising institutional arrangement, co-management can take many forms; thus, not any type of co-management will be effective for the suite of challenges fa...

March, 2000 AFRICA N John Cohen was a product of the democratic frontier ethos of the American West. A rigorous stickler for accuracy of detail and fidelity to the facts, he was at the same time an unwavering optimist. His writing and teaching was infused with a moral vision––that ordinary men and women are endowed with the innate capacity to solve their common problems, to learn from mistakes ...

Web sites of Slovenian political parties do not fully exploit the Internet’s potential for interactive and deliberative communication on political issues with citizens, because they favour a competitive-elitist perception of democracy. As result, political party’s web sites are mainly used for political mobilization, agitation in persuasion. Supporting this model of democracy via web pages enab...

Formal courses in adult education are most often housed within schools or faculties that include other disciplines such as teacher education, psychology, or training and development. Adult educators teaching these courses may feel obligated to follow the procedures and practices of the institution as well as of the programs with which they are associated. This creates a set of paradoxes and con...

The idea of so-called “Participatory Budgeting” (PB) has recently re-entered the modern political discourse. Major metropoles, such as New York, are making progress beyond mere piloting by paving road for mandatory PB with new legislation, while communities various sizes and politicians ranks all around world aim to follow suit in an attempt maintain image democratic progress. This paper shall ...

T o evaluate whether public involvement on a national forest district fairly represents the public's values, this article proposes four hypothesis tests. First, it is hypothesized that public-invo1l)ement programs operute according to a participatory democracy logic, in which broad cross sections o f the public participate in public involvement opportunities. A second hypothesis is tested that ...

The theory of participatory culture, described by Henry Jenkins and Yochai Benkler, proposes that the emergence of new media allows for unrestricted access to the system of cultural exchange, and supports a more democratic process of production and distribution in the media industry. An additional benefit of greater participation in society, manifested by active audiences, is a heightened appre...

Community-based and participatory research methods challenge many commonly held beliefs regarding the basic nature of research and the ethics that inform our research practices. Action research, the term commonly used to refer to a broad range of these more collaborative research approaches, “seeks to bring together action and reflection, theory and practice, in participation with others, in th...