30/07/2026
Interessant boek over democratie in de school.
*Het spel der regels*
Tobias Leßner undertook a research placement at a Democratic School in Germany for several weeks to carry out his fieldwork. His doctoral thesis is largely based on ethnographic data collected during this stay. He attended an EUDEC conference before beginning his doctoral thesis.
Quoting from the back cover:
"Democracy is regarded as a central educational goal, yet it often appears contradictory in everyday school life. The book looks behind the façade of democratic principles and, using the example of a Democratic School, reconstructs the way rules are handled as a humorous game. Here, rules are not simply obeyed or broken, but interpreted, negotiated, altered or reformulated. This reveals that democracy is not a static state, but a dynamic process characterised by tension between seriousness and irony, ideals and everyday life. The book invites readers to understand school as a place of lively negotiation and shared responsibility."
Demokratie gilt als zentrales Bildungsziel, zeigt sich im Schulalltag jedoch häufig widersprüchlich. Das Buch blickt hinter die Fassade demokratischer Programmatik und rekonstruiert am Beispiel einer Demokratischen Schule den Umgang mit Regeln als hu...
