{"id":6665,"date":"2016-02-03T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2016-02-03T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:43:20","slug":"harry-boyte-education-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/03\/harry-boyte-education-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Boyte writes on free spaces for Education Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Education-Week-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Education-Week-logo-150x150.png\" alt=\"Education Week - logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Education-Week-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Education-Week-logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Education-Week-logo.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>As part of an ongoing conversation about democracy in education, <strong>Harry Boyte<\/strong>, senior scholar in public work philosophy for Augsburg&#8217;s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, recently contributed an article to Education Week in which he argued in favor of free spaces&#8211;&#8220;places where people find it easy and enjoyable to swap stories, plan adventures, and discuss and argue politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Boyte draws on his experiences with Sabo Center colleague <strong>Dennis Donovan<\/strong>, national organizer for Public Achievement, to articulate the importance of providing places for challenging yet compassionate dialog.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/Bridging-Differences\/2016\/02\/free_spaces_in_democracy_schoo.html\">Free Spaces in Democracy Schools<\/a> on the Education Weekly site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an ongoing conversation about democracy in education, Harry Boyte, senior scholar in public work philosophy for Augsburg&#8217;s Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, recently contributed an article to Education Week in which he argued in favor of free spaces&#8211;&#8220;places where people find it easy and enjoyable to swap stories, plan adventures, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[801,3781,902,3780,1236,3455],"class_list":["post-6665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-democracy","tag-dennis-donovan","tag-education","tag-education-week","tag-harry-boyte","tag-sabo-center-for-democracy-and-citizenship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6675,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}