Kageki Asakura (Japan - Online)

Kageki ASAKURA (TDU/ Tekisen Democratic University) Japan
Kageki Asakura has worked in both areas, the practices and the study of democratic education. Asakura has worked at the oldest free democratic school in Japan and founded the first Japanese democratic university, Shure University (TDU/Tekisen Democratic University, now). Asakura is Director there. Asakura visited democratic schools in the world and is also keen to network free democratic schools/ universities internationally. He has been an active member of International Democratic Education Conference for two decades. He loves to help launching democratic universities in the world. Asakura studies and writes about democratic education, history of education and ethnography of youth. Asakura is also a pioneer scholar of “self-ology”, a study about the self.