Abstract
The research aims to study “education democracy " in terms of democratic practices in the educational process, developing a spirit of criticism, plurality of opinions, tolerance towards the opinions of others, respecting the decision of the majority and taking responsibility for the decision. In addition to the relationship between democracy and education, the relationship between democracy and education as a practice, and clarifying the goals of education for democracy, and clarifying areas of democratic awareness, the implications of education for democracy and procedures for developing democratic practices in education and the detection of obstacles to democratic practices in the educational process, and that is in the context of an applied analytical and scientific study based on the researcher's visit to Palestinian educational institutions and his knowledge of their reality, through which the researcher seeks to present what is hoped from the "education democracy" and how should it be applied to reality and what goals should these institutions seek to achieve?
Highlights
The democratic approach has evolved over the ages and its many concepts have varied, so that at present it is touching the various aspects of life and their fields on the individual and collective levels
Education is an important tool for achieving democracy, and democracy is an important tool for the advancement of the educational reality in order to build a civil society
For democracy to become an approach and a way of life, an effective radical change must be made in the planning and implementation strategies, starting from the development of the educational leadership that represents the planning aspect, and the educational staff that represents the executive side, to accommodate democratic concepts such as: “Freedom, justice, equality, tolerance, human rights and acceptance of others”; considering that it represents the only guarantee for instilling those values and principles in the souls of young people, and giving them values that contradict slavery, negation and unilateralism
Summary
The democratic approach has evolved over the ages and its many concepts have varied, so that at present it is touching the various aspects of life and their fields on the individual and collective levels. For democracy to become an approach and a way of life, an effective radical change must be made in the planning and implementation strategies, starting from the development of the educational leadership that represents the planning aspect, and the educational staff that represents the executive side, to accommodate democratic concepts such as: “Freedom, justice, equality, tolerance, human rights and acceptance of others”; considering that it represents the only guarantee for instilling those values and principles in the souls of young people, and giving them values that contradict slavery, negation and unilateralism. Vol 14, No 11; 2020 educational atmosphere is to achieve the desired goals and build effective human relations lean on the interaction which based on respect, trust, a sense of security and reassurance to maximize democratic behavior in education, whereas the more the educational system is flexible, able to satisfy the needs of learners and has the ability to inculcate the concepts of democracy and freedom, the more the learner is thinker and critic (Walter, 2003,17). Al-Amairah & Mukabalih (2010) defined democracy as: A human system and a life style with its principles, concepts, knowledge and values, through which it is expected that their hopes and aspirations will be achieved including equality, justice, freedom, equal opportunities, tolerance, acceptance of the other and participation in decision-making "(p. 90)
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