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“Education Cities-the Art of Collaborations,” an organization which focuses on turning educational systems into a central growth instrument for the cities in which they exist
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Hecht founded the Democratic School in Hadera, Israel, the first school in the world to call itself democratic
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Democratic Education Conference (IDEC); an annual conference that continues to connect educators, schools, and organizations.
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Institute for Democratic Education in Israel (IDE), which focuses on making change in the public schools system through democratic education principals. Within IDE, Hecht created an academic faculty for DE teachers.
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Its closing was a sign to me of the difficulty of sustaining an unusual school within the regular system. In fact, all the experimental/open schools that were established during the 70s in Israel were unable to go on for long; some were actually physically closed, while others changed ideologically.
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was under heavy pressure from two main directions.
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the direction of the educational establishment, which was expert at taking the “different” and changing it to “similar”
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internal pressure within the schools themselves—adults, parents, teachers and students,
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were afraid to remain in an isolated position
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were leading processes of change towards the “middle,” towards being “like everyone else.”
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Erich Fromm describes in detail this process of a pendulum swinging between uniqueness and conformism in his book The Escape of Freedom
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We assumed that we would have to establish a wide-ranging educational movement in Israel, in order to compel the educational establishment to confront an entire movement rather than a solitary school
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This story epitomizes what happens during the learning process. Learning is a story of searching, discovery, of a great excitement and intimacy—all of which are difficult to convey to others.
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Education Cities https://groups.diigo.com/group/explorando-nuevas-formas-de-educacin/content/education-cities-12955677

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