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Individuals display conforming behavior without thinking, examining and without feeling their independence and freedom. However, conforming behavior based on internalization involves an adaptation which allows an individual to think and to examine a situation independently and which is actualized through his own independent volitions. This type of behavior based on internalization creates independent personalities. The process, through which the reasons for the expected behavior are explained and the student is oriented to think and make a decision accordingly, is a product of a democratic communication approach.
You can train a teacher in the appropriate method or technique of exposition of a subject, or in the best way of assessment, but there is not much that you can teach him on how to establish this or that type of climate in the classroom. The only lesson that can be given here is to draw attention to the student element which has as much importance as the institutional element and inculcate sensitivity in the teacher towards the needs and expectations of the student. This is the essence of creating democratic education environments.
While the macro level education-democracy relationship emphasizes the objective of “providing every citizen with knowledge and awareness of democracy”, the principal aim of the micro level relationship is “the reflection of this knowledge and awareness onto real life and their transformation into behavior”. This transformation requires a democratic climate and appropriate conditions for action in educational environments. To create these conditions, classroom environments should have an atmosphere of trust and freedom, as well as democratic communication and interaction.