Consent Decision-Making for Student Voice
Hosted by: Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard
Audrey Cheynut, teacher of literature for 16-17 year old students, is with us today to tell us the story of how, as a teacher, she got acquainted with sociocracy and ‘consent decision-making’ and how she uses the method with her students.
Audrey and I first met in a training event for teacher educators in the Pestalozzi Programme on social media and human rights.
Audrey’s main goal is to help students take responsibility for their learning. This is why we are so fond of Audrey’s work: she is energetic, organized and in touch with her values as a teacher. She wants to embody these values and her commitment to learning (her learning as well as her students’ learning) is the base of her action.
Audrey has been using consent decision making for quite some time now with her students. She has given her students the possibility:
What helped Audrey try out this new method? She tells us: “I knew my students and they trust me”.
In this podcast, Audrey explains the method and gives advice to teachers who are interested in trying it:
This podcast walks you through the entire process.
What is Sociocracy?
Sociocracy seeks to achieve solutions that create harmonious social environments as well as productive organizations and businesses. It’s:
While sociocracy shares the values of democracy, freedom and equality, it differs in two essential ways; the use of consent rather than majority voting in decision-making, and decision-making after discussion by people who know each other. It’s a vision for “deeper democracy.” Because the principles and methods can produce a democratic society better than majority vote can. It also distributes leadership and power to the lowest levels of an organization and thus produces the characteristics of recent theories of “green” and flat organizations.
You may download the image above in pdf form here while this handout provides further information on each step of the process.
Credits
Universté du Nous & Les Colibris
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Learn to Change’s members held a General Assembly in fall 2022, in which the decision was taken to transform the association into a less formal, and more agile entity. Therefore, we will change status, going from an ‘organization’ to a less formal entity that we name “The collective”
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