International Democratic Education Conference

The International Democratic Education Conference, or IDEC, is an annual academic

Academic conference

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and youth conference

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.

Internal Democratic Education Conference details
Year	Host school	Location	Participating countries
1993	The Democratic School of Hadera Democratic School of Hadera The Democratic School of Hadera is a democratic school in Hadera, Israel. It was founded in 1987 by Yaacov Hecht. With around 380 students aged four to eighteen, it is the largest of the twenty-five Israeli democratic schools....	Israel	Austria, Israel, UK, USA
1994	Sands School	England	Austria, Israel, UK
1995	The WUK	Vienna, Austria	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	Sands School	England	Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Palestine, Turkey, New Zealand, Ukraine, UK, USA
1998	The Stork Family School	Vinnitsa, Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...	Germany, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, UK, Ukraine, USA
1999	Summerhill School Summerhill School Summerhill School is an independent British boarding school that was founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill with the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around...	Leiston, Suffolk, England	Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Palestine, UK, US
2000	Tokyo Shure	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 Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... and Palestine Palestine Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....	Germany, Israel, Palestine
2002	Tamariki School	Christchurch Christchurch Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of... , New Zealand	Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Nepal, UK, USA
2003	Albany Free School Albany Free School The Free School Professional Memberships & Affiliations:Member School:* Northeast Association of Independent Democratic Schools * Alternative Education Resource Organization * International Democratic Education Network... , Alternative Education Resource Organization Alternative Education Resource Organization The Alternative Education Resource Organization or AERO is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 to advance learner-centred approaches to education...	USA	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	Bhubaneshwar, India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Nepal, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, UK, USA
2005	K.R.A.T.Z.A.	Berlin, Germany	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)	Sydney, Australia	Australia, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Nepal, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, USA
2007	Institute for Democratic Education (Politeia), World Education Forum, Mogi das Cruzes	Brasil	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, Korean Parents's Association for Alternative Education, Seoul Alternative Learning Community Network	Seoul, South Korea	Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the USA
2010	Institute of Democratic Education	Tel Aviv, Israel	Australia, Austria, Brazil, Japan, Korea, Poland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA
2011	Sands School	United Kingdom
2012	Nuestra Escuela	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...	TBD
2013	The Patchwork School	Colorado, USA	TBD

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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IDEC 2012: For the very first time, the IDEC conference will be held in the Caribbean at Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
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, a Commonwealth (unincorporated territory) of the United States
United States
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External links

International Democratic Education Network - further information and a data-base of democratic schools
IDEC 2003 was held in Troy, New York, USA
IDEC 2004 was held in Bhubaneshwar, 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 to have been held in South Korea, August 1 to 8 2009
IDEC 2010 was held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, April 6 to 13 2010
IDEC@EUDEC 2011 will be held in Devon, England, July 5 to 14 2011
IDEC 2012 will be held in Caguas, Puerto Rico, March 24 to 28 2012.

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