International Democratic Education Conference
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The International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) is an annual academic and youth conference hosted by a variety of schools and organizations in cities around the world. It is a global gathering of educators, students, parents, and advocates who are interested in democratic education.
History
IDEC was first held in 1993, and has been held in all subsequent years except 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 organising it.
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!align="center" colspan="6"|Internal Democratic Education Conference details |
| Year
! Host school ! Location ! Participating countries |
|---|
| 1993
| The Democratic School of Hadera | Israel | Austria, Israel, UK, USA |
| 1994
| Sands School[https://www.sands-school.co.uk Sands School] official website. Retrieved 28/04/19. | England | Austria, Israel, UK |
| 1995
| SchülerInnenschule & Werkcollege im WUK {{cite web |url=http://schuelerinnenschule.at |title=SchülerInnenschule |accessdate=2019-05-18}} Official website. | Austria, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Norway, UK, USA |
| 1996
| The Democratic School of Hadera | Israel | Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, UK, USA |
| 1997
| England | Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Palestine, Turkey, New Zealand, Ukraine, UK, USA |
| 1998
| The Stork Family School | Vinnytsia, Ukraine | Germany, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, UK, Ukraine, USA |
| 1999
| Summerhill School[https://www.facebook.com/SummerhillIDEC1999/ Summerhill IDEC 99] archive website. Retrieved 12/02/18. | Leiston, Suffolk, England | Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, UK, US |
| 2000
| Tokyo Shure[http://tokyoshure.jp Tokyo Shure] official website. Retrieved 1/15/09. | Japan | Australia, China, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Palestine, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Thailand, UK, Ukraine, USA |
| 2001
| Institute of Democratic Education | Israel | Germany, Israel, Palestine |
| 2002
| Christchurch, New Zealand | Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Nepal, UK, USA |
| 2003
| Albany Free School, | United States | Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, Ukraine, USA |
| 2004
| SchoolScape | Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Nepal, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, UK, USA |
| 2005
| K.R.Ä.T.Z.Ä. | Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lesotho, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, Ukraine, USA. |
| 2006
| Australasian Association for Progressive and Alternative Education (AAPAE)[http://www.aapae.edu.au/ Australasian Association for Progressive and Alternative Education] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412134900/http://www.aapae.edu.au/ |date=2016-04-12 }} official website. Retrieved 1/15/09. | Australia, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Nepal, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, USA |
| 2007
| Institute for Democratic Education (Politeia),[http://www.politeia.org.br/ Politieia] official website. Retrieved 1/15/09. | Brazil | Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Ukraine, USA. |
| 2008
| SANE | Vancouver, Canada | Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Palestine, Peru, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, UK, USA |
| 2009
| People's Solidarity for Alternative Education, | Seoul, South Korea | Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the USA |
| 2010
| Institute of Democratic Education | Australia, Austria, Brazil, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, Poland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA |
| 2011
| Sands School{{cite web|title=IDEC@EUDEC 2011|url=http://www.idenetwork.org/index.php/32-newsletters/english-newsletters/136-iden-newsletter-august-2011|format=|accessdate=2019-04-27}} | United Kingdom | |
| 2012
| Nuestra Escuela {{Cite web |url=http://democraticeducation.org/index.php/features/nuestra_escuela_a_school_with_a_mission_of_love/ |title=Nuestra Escuela: A School with a Mission of Love - IDEA, Institute for Democratic Education in America |access-date=2011-01-30 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222612/http://democraticeducation.org/index.php/features/nuestra_escuela_a_school_with_a_mission_of_love/ |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.idec2012.org/ |title=IDEC 2012 - Caguas, Puerto Rico - Official website |access-date=2011-06-16 |archive-date=2017-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222070256/http://www.idec2012.org/ |url-status=dead}} | TBD | |
| 2013
| The Patchwork School {{cite web |url=http://www.thepatchworkschool.com/ |title=Home |website=thepatchworkschool.com}}[http://www.thepatchworkschool.com/ IDEC 2013 - Boulder, Colorado, USA - Official website] | Colorado, USA | TBD |
| 2014
| | Gwangmyeong, Korea | TBD |
| 2015
| Ako-ā-Rongo Trust | Nelson, New Zealand | TBD |
| 2016
| | Mikkeli, Finland | Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, USA, UK, South Africa. |
| 2017
| Education Cities Organization Institute of Democratic Education | Hadera, Israel | Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Columbia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Myanmar, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nepal, Norway, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, Taiwan, Ukraine, USA, UK. |
| 2018
| Institute of Democratic Education | Bangalore, India | India, Indonesia, Brazil, Japan, UK, Israel, South Korea, Ukraine, Nepal, USA + more |
| 2019
| Institute of Democratic Education | ? |
| 2020
|Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir-Sri Matri Aurobindo Vidyalaya |Kathmandu, Nepal | |
| 2021
| online |
| 2022
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| 2023
| Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir {{cite web |title=IDEC 2023 |website=www.idecnepal.org |url=https://www.idecnepal.org/}} | Kathmandu, Nepal | |
| 2024
| IDEC 2024 Executive Committee (TDEC) | Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Nepal, Malaysia, United States, Indonesia, Finland, Ukraine, Australia, Germany, Israel, India, United Kingdom, Thailand |
- 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[http://2009.e-idec.org/en/node/126 Notice | IDEC 2009 KOREA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100504075125/http://2009.e-idec.org/en/node/126 |date=2010-05-04}} official website. Retrieved 9/10/09.
- IDEC 2012: For the very first time, the IDEC conference will be held in the Caribbean at Puerto Rico, a Commonwealth (unincorporated territory) of the United States.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://idenetwork.org International Democratic Education Network] - further information and a data-base of democratic schools
- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RIXYoAYCFQ3Tp2q0CTAPrzdHwFrPmBzW/view?usp=sharing 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)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060904102649/http://www.idecny.com/ IDEC 2003] was held in Troy, New York, USA
- [http://idec2004.com IDEC 2004] was held in Bhubaneshwar, India, from Dec 3rd to Dec 12th 2004
- [http://idec2005.org IDEC 2005] was held in Berlin, Germany, July 30 to Aug 7th 2005
- [http://idec2006.org IDEC 2006] was held in Sydney, Australia, July 10 to July 16, 2006
- [http://idec2007.org IDEC 2007] was held in São Paulo, Brazil, September 8 to 16 2007
- [http://idec2008.at.org IDEC 2008] was held in Vancouver, Canada, August 11 to 18 2008
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090922195943/http://2009.e-idec.org/ IDEC 2009] was officially cancelled but the people already there had a gathering in South Korea, August 2009
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090829092943/http://www.2010.e-idec.org/ IDEC 2010] was held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, April 6 to 13 2010
- [http://www.ideceudec.org IDEC 2011] was held in Devon, England, July 5 to 14 2011
- [http://www.idec2012.org IDEC 2012] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222070256/http://www.idec2012.org/ |date=2017-12-22 }} was held in Caguas, Puerto Rico, March 24 to 28 2012.
- [http://www.idec2016.org IDEC 2016] was held in Mikkeli, Finland, June 6 to 10 2016.
- [http://www.idec2017.org IDEC 2017] was held in Hadera, Israel, March 30 to April 3, 2017.
- [http://indec.net.in/ IDEC 2018] was held in Bangalore, India, November 15 to 21 2018.
- [https://idec-eudec.in.ua/ IDEC 2019] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725035224/https://idec-eudec.in.ua/ |date=2019-07-25 }} was held in Kyiv and Vinnytsia, Ukraine, August 1 to 9 2019.
- [https://www.twdec.org/idec2024-events/ IDEC 2024(Chinese Language)] was held in Taipei and Yilan,July 20 to 28 2024.
- [https://www.twdec.org/en/idec2024-events/ IDEC 2024(English Language)]was held in Taipei and Yilan,July 20 to 28 2024.