Over the last twenty years interest in democratic education has expanded all over the world.
The annual IDECs (International Democratic Education Conferences) take place in a different country each year, and there are now other organisations such as Reevo in South America, and APDEC, Asia-Pacific Democratic Education Community, which host similar conferences.
One indication of the growth of the movement is the number of times I have been invited to speak in different countries, sometimes at IDECs, but often independently. What follows is a chronological list of some of the talks that I have given around the world. I have included a few in French and German, because I speak both languages, but I have not translated them into English because they generally cover more or less the same ground as my English talks. (In Japan and Italy I spoke in English with an interpreter.) These talks are a useful introduction to the benefits of a system in which teachers and learners work together as equals.
Verschiedene Freiheiten Vienna 2001
Four Topics Four Italian Universities 2002
Ecarts culturels, ressemblances pédagogiques Strasbourg 2003
Education alternative en Angleterre et autre part Toulouse 2003
Demokratie in der Schule Vienna 2004
Democratic Education The University of East Anglia, 2005
Demokratie in der Schule: wie geht es? Vienna 2004
My Apprenticeship (English translation of a talk given in Leipzig, 2006)
Lernen freie Kinder genug? Kapriole, Leipzig 2006
David Gribbles Lehrjahre University of Leipzig 2006
Children don't start wars IDEC in Berlin 2006
Who asks the questions? Futurelab and Bedales School 2008
Free Schools: Utopia and reality in daily practice University of Navarre 2010
Hostility to Democratic Education IDEC in Frankfurt 2012