Live Webinar · 10 Giugno 2026
Roots and Routes: The Origins and Evolution of School Participatory Budgeting
Un webinar internazionale dedicato alle origini e all'evoluzione del Bilancio Partecipativo Scolastico (School PB). Tre ospiti d'eccezione esploreranno come questo strumento si è sviluppato nel tempo, quali radici teoriche lo fondano e quali percorsi ha tracciato nelle scuole di tutto il mondo.
Relatori
Stefano Stortone
CEO
BiPart
Civic activist, political researcher, and social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the social enterprise BiPart. He holds a PhD in Political Sciences from the Catholic University of Milan. His professional and academic interests focus on democratic theory, civil society, political participation, and civic technologies. Over the course of his career, he has been involved in more than 40 participatory budgeting processes across a range of contexts, including cities, schools, and even a prison in Italy. He is a member of the Italian Open Government Forum and coordinates the Italian Observatory on Participatory Budgeting.
Tara Bartlett
Clinical Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Her work focuses on public policy, democratic innovations, and youth participation in school and community decision-making. With 14 years of experience as a public school educator, she leads and supports civic education initiatives locally and globally. She co-directs the Arizona Civic Coalition and facilitates programs like Project Citizen and Kids Voting. Among her recent authored or edited books are Educating for democracy: the case for participatory democracy in schools (Elgar, 2025) and Inclusive civic education and school democracy through participatory budgeting(OnlineFirst, 2023).
Daniel Schugurensky
Professor
Arizona State University
Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, where he is the founding director of the Participatory Governance Initiative, the director of the master's in social and cultural pedagogy, and the coordinator of the graduate and undergraduate certificates in social transformation. Among his recent authored or edited books are Educating for democracy: the case for participatory democracy in schools(Elgar, 2025) and Global Citizenship Education in Teacher Education (Routledge, 2020).
The Participatory Budgeting
What is School Participatory Budgeting—and where does it actually come from? Before it became a classroom methodology or a school project, PB was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as a radical experiment in urban democracy: a tool for redistributing power, not just resources, giving citizens direct control over public decisions. Over time, PB travelled the world and transformed. It simplified, adapted, and eventually found its way into schools—becoming a structured process for teaching civic participation, dialogue, and decision-making. But something shifted along the way. This webinar invites participants to go back to the roots—to understand what PB was originally designed to do, how it evolved into a pedagogical tool, and what may have been lost or overlooked in that transition. Starting from history, we will ask a more ambitious question: can School PB be more than a project? Can it become, like its predecessor, a genuine instrument of structural change—reshaping how schools are governed, how students are heard, and how communities make decisions together? Participants will gain a deeper understanding of PB's origins and theoretical foundations, a critical lens on current SPB practices, and fresh inspiration for reimagining what participatory budgeting in schools can truly become.
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