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Bringing Democracy to Early Childhood Education

Rachel J. hopes to run an early childhood education program one day. She interviewed Laura Polo, a teacher at her father's headstart program in Philadelphia to learn more about how democratic values can be promoted in the classroom.

By Rachel J. from Our Democracy at The Philadelphia Writing Project's Youth Journalism Camp 2021 in Pennsylvania

Our Democracy at The Philadelphia Writing Project's Youth Journalism Camp 2021

Our Democracy PhilWP Youth Journalism Camp 2021

Teen journalists from the Greater Philadelphia area answer the question "What does democracy look like?" through multimedia journalism about their communities and photographs from their own lives.

The Role of Art in Democracy

Philadelphia | What does democracy look like? Our Democracy student journalist Katie Fang answers this question through a profile of local teen artist Mekala Kumar.

On the Road with Our Democracy

Youth journalist Audrey S. took a road trip from the midwest back home to Pennsylvania. Along the way, she asked passersby 2 questions: What do you think democracy should look like in your life and community? What does democracy actually look like?

My Mother's Jewish Chinese Identity

Philadelphia| Student Emmanuelle K. interviews her mother about being Jewish-Chinese and standing up for her ethnic communities in America.

Democracy and My Family

Kethan is a high school student in Philadelphia. His family immigrated to the United States from India. He tells their family story through photos.

More responses from Pennsylvania

Humans of the Valley

In our class, we were doing a project similar to the "Humans of New York."

Humans of the Valley

This was an interview project we did for English class.

Analytical Community Project

I chose to do my project on a plan to convert an abandoned Kmart building into a recreational facility

Democracy and My Family

Kethan is a high school student in Philadelphia. His family immigrated to the United States from India. He tells their family story through photos.

Civic Journalism

Trapping stray cats in my neighborhood and having them neutered and spayed.

Final Project

Build a Six Flags in the Empty Ingersoll Rand Clubhouse Lot.

Humans of the Valley

I recently interviewed a friend about what she would've told her younger self.

Civic Journal-community park programs

My project is about a community park that could serve the community in many different ways.

Humans of the Valley

I interviewed a teammate of mine.

Analytical Community Project

The point of this club is to help the community reuse, recycle and reduce waste. This picture represents collecting trash that will be recycled that was collected by the club.

Humans of the Valley

This was a project for my English 10 Class. I interviewed Nick Jacob.

Symbols of Democracy

This photo is of a bald eagle nest with a farm in the background. The eagle represents the freedom that we experience through democracy and the farm in the photo represents the American Dream that is only possible through democracy.

More responses about "community", " democracy", " education", " equality", and "social justice"

Our democracy

In an assignment for my English class, I was assigned with taking a photo and saying what it means to me.

Wheel of Democracy

This image captures the spirit of adding voices to move the wheel of democracy for all citizens in our quest for liberty, justice, and equality of opportunity. It hangs across the street from the site of memorial plaque honoring victims of lynchings

Our Democracy

In this response, I talked about what democracy means to me, which is rooted in being equal, having freedom to be ourselves, and the importance of education.

Our Democracy

Should costumes be allowed in school? Who should be allowed to make that decision?

Our Democracy

To me, democracy means that everyone is equal and has the same amount of power. In this post, I showed how my picture represents democracy.

what is a democracy

I believe that a democracy is any group that can influence the balance of its state and the hearts of the people.

Django Everta

Danielle Anderson Humans of Sophomore Honors interview

The crisis In Ukraine

With Russia invading Ukraine I think Ukraine has every right to do what they have to do to protect the elderly, & they children of their country because Who is Russia thinking they can just come into the picture and just try to take over things

Faces of cchs

2. He is connected because of his baseball connection with the school and being apart of FFA. He has been apart of the CCHS community for 3 years. He is not proud of anything in being in the CCHS community.

Symbols of democracy

The picture is depicting the seasons changing in Athens Pennsylvania which in this photo the diversity in the tree color is representing the diversity of people’s opinions in our democracy which allows our government to change. The seasons are ever

Symbols of Democracy

This is a picture taken out of an airplane over lower central New York.

analytical community project

The repaving of Keystone Ave.

Education, Empathy, and Critical Thinking

A narrative essay and analyzation of our interview with Ms. Zaloudek on her life and opinions on democracy.

Our Democracy

We chose a photo that represents democracy to us.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Nina

I interviewed Nina Chiu about her family relationships and who has had the biggest impact on her and who she has become.

Humans of Sophomore Honors - Kairi Cox

For my peer interview, my focus was Kairi. Our converstion focuse on how others' perceptions could influence your sense of self. But her take was different, it didn't challenge what she understood about herself. It´s admirable to those struggling.

Democracy

This is a building on the campus of the University of Arkansas. It is Peabody Hall. we are using this building for a classroom for our journalism camp. I believe this photo shows democracy because it was chosen by the school to be built as a whole.

Our Democracy

Education is the key to "Our Democracy."

Our Democracy

In this response, I talked about what democracy means to me, which is rooted in being equal, having freedom to be ourselves, and the importance of education.

Humans of Sophomore Honors

In this interview i interviewed Miles Sorensen about his family and how they impact him. Some of the questions i asked were "Who is your favorite relative and why?". In conclusion the point of the interview was to get to know more about the person.

Our Democracy

My picture represents democracy in my eyes, the ability for people to work together. The ability to hear everyone's voice in order to function.

demoracy

I chose this picture of a classroom to describe democracy. I think in a democracy, every citizen has certain basic rights that the state cannot take away from them. These rights are guaranteed under international law.

Our democracy- Sophomore Honors

I choose to write about a local protest that happened at my school because I feel like it really shows democracy in our community.

Our Democracy

My post is on what I think Democracy is and something that I have seen that shows my thoughts.

Our Democracy

The Our Democracy Education Project is a partnership with the National Writing Project and PhotoWings. PhotoWings' mission is to help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. The project is also supported by the National Geographic Society and Catchlight, and explores the question, “What does democracy look like?” through the creation of a multimedia record of the state of local, everyday democracy today.