17 Best Democratic Education Podcasts

1. Exploring Unschooling

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Explore unschooling with Pam Laricchia, Anna Brown, and Erika Ellis. We want to help parents figure out how to apply bigger picture unschooling ideas in their everyday lives.
Host Pam Laricchia
Email ****@livingjoyfully.ca
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 225Facebook 8.2KTwitter 129Instagram 3.5K Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Since Jan 2016 Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Human Restoration Project

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Since 2018, the Human Restoration Project Podcast has reimaged education through critical, progressive, human-centered learning! Across nearly 200 episodes, and counting, we've explored every topic in education: ungrading and alternative assessment, interdisciplinary play-based and project-based learning, SEL, education reforms and systemic school change in society with students, teachers, leaders, researchers, and advocates around the world. Join us on our mission to restore humanity to education, together!MORE Hosts Nick Covington, Chris McNutt
Producer/Network Human Restoration Project
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 39Facebook 783Twitter 9.8KInstagram 944 Avg Length 51 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

3. NOLAed: Education for Liberation

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NOLAed: Education for Liberation is a weekly show focused on public education in New Orleans and the surrounding parishes. We invite parents, teachers, students, community members, and anyone invested in democratic and racially equitable education to join us by subscribing to our podcast, posting to our Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram page!MORE Producer/Network Dr. Maria Velazquez, Dr. Adrienne Dixson
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 4Facebook 1.1KTwitter 826Instagram 454 Avg Length 57 min Format Long form Since Dec 2019 Get Email Contact

4. Get Schooled: Student Stories from Across KY

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Get Schooled amplifies and elevates the stories and voices of students so that they can have agency in our education system. Get Schooled is a youth-led podcast produced by the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a statewide organization of young people co-creating more just, democratic Kentucky schools and communities as research, policy and advocacy partners. Find more from us at ksvt.org.MORE Host Addison Lowry
Producer/Network Kentucky Student Voice Team
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 15Facebook 2.2KTwitter 3.2KInstagram 1.8K Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

5. Radical Learning Talks

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Radical Learning Talks is a bi-weekly podcast where Sari González and Becka Koritz explore different unschooling/deschooling/conscious parenting topics with the focus of shifting the way we think about education, learning, parenting, relationships, community and much more. Sari and Becka are unschooling mamas, parent coaches and leaders in the self-directed education movement. They provide support at the intersection of unschooling, parenting, relationships and community building through various kinds of unschooling tools and resources for self-directed learning families and communities.MORE Hosts Sari Gonzu00e1lez, Rebecka Koritz
Producer/Network Radical Learning
Email ****@radical-learning.org
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 20Facebook 1.4KInstagram 23K Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. Self Directed

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Self Directed - A Podcast on Life, Learning, and Raising Free Thinkers. Hosts Cecilie and Jesper Conrad, full-time travellers since 2018 and parents of four, invite a new guest on the podcast every Thursday.MORE Hosts Cecilie Conrad, Jesper Conrad
Producer/Network The Conrad Family
Email ****@theconrad.family
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 31Facebook 4.3KTwitter 52Instagram 2.4K Avg Length 58 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. New DEEL Podcast

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A podcast for today's educators and school leaders. The New DEEL team made up of school leaders, higher education faculty, school counselors and researchers uses Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership and ethical decision-to tackle some of today's toughest issues in education and schools. Please join our mailing list to find out the latest on podcasts, research and New DEEL events.www.newdeel.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.MORE Producer/Network New DEEL
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2Facebook 74 Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. Virtual Kitchen Table

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We'd like to welcome you to the Virtual Kitchen Table. We are Hayley from Taking a Kinder Path, Erin from Ever Learning and Ashley from Ashley as Mama and Storytime Shelves. We're gathering to have conversations about family life and home education, most specifically unschooling, which is sometimes known as self-directed education or, as we sometimes refer to it, whole life learning, consent-based education or natural learning. We'll be sharing experiences and ideas, learning as we go through relaxed conversation. We hope you'll pull a chair up to the table and join us.MORE Hosts Hayley, Erin, Ashley
Producer/Network Erin
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 11 Avg Length 134 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

9. Interrogating Spaces

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Interrogating Spaces examines ideas around inclusivity and attainment in Higher Education. Each episode will explore democratic and decolonised teaching practices through dialogue with practitioners as well as staff and students from University of the Arts London.MORE Producer/Network UAL Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange
Email ****@arts.ac.uk
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Apple Reviews 1Facebook 101.7KTwitter 2.6KInstagram 206.3K Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Since Oct 2019 Get Email Contact

10. Human Restoration Project

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Since 2018, the Human Restoration Project Podcast has reimaged education through critical, progressive, human-centered learning! Across nearly 200 episodes, and counting, we've explored every topic in education: ungrading and alternative assessment, interdisciplinary play-based and project-based learning, SEL, education reforms and systemic school change in society with students, teachers, leaders, researchers, and advocates around the world. Join us on our mission to restore humanity to education, together!MORE Email ****@humanrestorationproject.org
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Avg Length 51 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. Wild Life Unschooling

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Decentralized education, free-ranged kids, soul-led education, no-schooling, unschooling, homeschooling, self-directed learning, natural learning, child-led education, interest-based education, autonomous education, worldschooling, deschooling, freedom-based learning, freeschooling, … you get it 😉 You want to support my work? bc1qx265furajm2kn2unekd43pcgvydla8vyhlgxuc ❤️ Here you'll find all the ressources you need to live a truly sovereign life: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/partner/wild-life-unschooling And for more information about the podcast and my work, take a look here: https:..MORE Producer/Network Alex
Email ****@proton.me
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

12. Democracy and Education Philosophy of Learning

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This seminal work by John Dewey delves into the pivotal role of public education within a democracy, sparking a transformative shift in educational thought. Dewey champions the importance of growth, experience, and active participation as core components in cultivating democratic values among both students and educators. (Introduction by timferreira)MORE Email ****@adfreesounds.com
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13. Alt on Alt

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Alt on Alt is a podcast exploring self-directed education through real conversations with the teens and staff living it. Each episode I dive into their stories, experiences, and what makes these alternative learning spaces actually work. Read the accompanying blog at www.yehudah.me/stuffMORE Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 7 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

14. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1859 - 1952)

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An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the different methods for achieving quality in education. After its initial publication, this book began a revolution in educational thinking; one that emphasized growth, experience, and activity as key elements in promoting democratic qualities in students and educators alike. (Introduction by timferreira)MORE Producer/Network LibriVox
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

15. The Independent Learner Podcast by Mosaic

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The Independent Learner Podcast by Mosaic is a space for honest conversations about how learning actually happens when families step outside conventional school. Hosted by Mosaic's Executive Director, the show explores self-directed learning through lived experience, not theory.Each episode features parents, educators, and young people reflecting on curiosity, agency, and what changes when learning is shaped around real lives rather than systems. No scripts. No prescriptions. Just thoughtful conversations about building learning paths that fit.MORE Email ****@weareborntolearn.org
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

16. Café com Paulo Freire - Learning, Life and Liberation

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Are you teacher in search of more inclusive and democratic ways to engage your students? Armchair digital activist looking for real-world change-making processes and community? Or just curious about the connection between coffee, student-led education, Freire and today's interconnected emergencies? Then this is the podcast for you!During the autumn 2021 in connection with the celebration of Paulo Freire's 100th anniversary CEMUS started an online and Uppsala based Café com Paulo Freire series, inspired by the international concept with the same name and convened by Azril Bacal and Daniel Mo..MORE Estimated listeners
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17. Democratic Education

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Democratic Education is an educational approach that empowers students by giving them a voice in decision-making processes, fostering autonomy, responsibility, and active participation. In this podcast, we explore the core elements of democratic education and how they shape learning environments worldwide. Join us as we dive into key components such as student choice, collaboration, and self-directed learning, and take virtual tours of pioneering democratic schools across the globe.MORE Estimated listeners
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