The International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) is an annual
academic
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and
youth conference
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hosted by a variety of schools and organizations in cities around the world.
History
IDEC was first held in 1993, and has been held in all subsequent years except for 2001
(see notes). The length of the conferences has varied between two days for the first event and 15 days in 1997. The purpose of each conference has been decided by the school that is organising it.
Notes:
* ''IDEC 2001:'' The conference was to be held jointly and co-hosted by the Institute of Democratic Education in Israel and the Hope Flowers School in Palestine, but the international situation reduced it to a comparatively small event, attended mainly by Israelis, Palestinians and Germans; for that situation they was decided to call this conference the “Israeli Democratic Education Conference”.
* ''IDEC 2009:'' The conference was cancelled due to
H1N1
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Notice , IDEC 2009 KOREA
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* ''IDEC 2012:'' For the very first time, the IDEC conference will be held in the Caribbean at Puerto Rico
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, a Commonwealth
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(unincorporated territory
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) of the United States.
See also
* Summerhill School
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* European Democratic Education Conference
The European Democratic Education Conference (EUDEC) is an annual conference of the European Democratic Education Community, a European network of people involved in democratic education. The first conference was held in Leipzig, Germany, from 25 ...
* European Democratic Education Community
The European Democratic Education Community (EUDEC) is a European non-profit organisation that promotes democratic education as a sensible educational model for all democratic states. EUDEC aims to further democratic education in Europe. Founded i ...
* Democratic education
Democratic education is a type of formal education that is organized democratically, so that students can manage their own learning and participate in the governance of their school. Democratic education is often specifically emancipatory, with ...
* List of democratic schools
This is a list of some of the current and former democratic schools around the world. This list also includes sub-branches of democratic schools such as Sudbury schools inspired by the Sudbury Valley School and certain anarchistic free schools ...
External links
International Democratic Education Network
- further information and a data-base of democratic schools
IDEC 1999
was held in Summerhill School, England, July 23 to July 26, 1999 (full 100-page report, with texts of all speeches, pictures, workshop reports, a conf diary, & delegate list)
IDEC 2003
was held in Troy, New York, USA
IDEC 2004
was held in Bhubaneshwar
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, India, from Dec 3rd to Dec 12th 2004
IDEC 2005
was held in Berlin, Germany, July 30 to Aug 7th 2005
IDEC 2006
was held in Sydney, Australia, July 10 to July 16, 2006
IDEC 2007
was held in São Paulo, Brazil, September 8 to 16 2007
IDEC 2008
was held in Vancouver, Canada, August 11 to 18 2008
IDEC 2009
was officially cancelled but the people already there had a gathering in South Korea, August 2009
IDEC 2010
was held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, April 6 to 13 2010
IDEC 2011
was held in Devon, England, July 5 to 14 2011
IDEC 2012
was held in Caguas, Puerto Rico, March 24 to 28 2012.
IDEC 2016
was held in Mikkeli, Finland, June 6 to 10 2016.
IDEC 2017
was held in Hadera, Israel, March 30 to April 3, 2017.
IDEC 2018
was held in Bangalore, India, November 15 to 21 2018.
IDEC 2019
was held in Kyiv and Vinnytsia, Ukraine, August 1 to 9 2019.
References
Educational programs
Academic conferences
Youth conferences