Biography
Daniel Schugurensky is a Professor at Arizona State University, with a joint appointment in the School of Social Transformation and the School of Public Affairs. He is the Chair of the Graduate Program in Social and Cultural Pedagogy and the Director of the Participatory Governance Initiative. His current interests include citizenship education, participatory democracy, community development, civic engagement, and social transformation.
Among his recent books are Paulo Freire (Bloomsbury, 2015), Global Citizenship Education and Teacher Education: International perspectives and practices (Routledge, 2020) and Participatory Budgeting: A new approach to citizenship education (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023).
His most recent articles include "Reinventing Freire in the 21st Century: Citizenship education, student voice and school participatory budgeting" (Current Issues in Comparative Education 2021), "Does School Participatory Budgeting Increase Students’ Political Efficacy? Bandura’s ‘Sources’, Civic Pedagogy, and Education for Democracy" (Curriculum and Teaching 2021) and "Deschooling society 50 years later. Revisiting Ivan Illich in the era of COVID-19" (Sisyphus 2020).