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Several years ago, I made a commitment to integrate democratic principles into the classes I teach and assignments I offer. I also made it a regular part of classroom decision-making. As the school year began, my grade five students struggled; they had become accustomed to the ‘teacher as authority’ approach to teaching and classroom management.
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Horton, T.A. (2015). The ‘Ayes’ have it?. In: Horton, T.A., Lemisko, L. (eds) Educator to Educator. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-986-9_11
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