CHAPTER 17ORGANIC CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE: The “City” and the Classroom as Micro Worlds
Our new City government is cool because it feels like we are doing the real world in school.
—Jin Ko Zheng, 4th-grade student, San Gabriel Unified School District
Setting up and refining the Starter City, students learn about the structure of governance and how to make democratic decisions and laws that shape their built environment. Those laws, the rights of people, the pros and cons of environmental issues, the height limitation on buildings, the appropriate energy systems, and the solutions to human problems are decided and communicated, and come into being.
A system of governance in the Never-Before-Seen Starter City provides a framework ...
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