From a school rebellion to a rebel school – its people and their initial struggles with democracy in education

The following text is a translation of two chapters from Norwegian book, “From school rebellion to rebel school” by Mosse Jørgensen (Jørgensen, 1971). She was the first “principal,” i.e., “school leader” and teacher in democratic high school, Experimental Gymnasium Oslo [Fosøksgymnaset i Oslo] Norway. Although this book translated into eight languages 1970s, it never English. editors Special Issue decided translate publish book: Chapter III – People VI Difficulties with democracy. These represent valuable addition special issue on Dialogic Pedagogy Democratic Education. They illustrate, complement, complete four other studies issue, which also focus its Swedish sister Gothenburg (Marjanovic-Shane, 2023a, 2023b, 2023c; Marjanovic-Shane, Kullenberg, & Gradovski, 2023). We are publishing translations these honor their author Jørgensen, who no more.