Participation and participatory planning in educational systems

A conference on participatory planning in education was held in January of this year sponsored by the Country Educational Planning Programme of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Reporting and interpreting a wide range of country experience, the complete papers to this conference will be published in July, from which the following paper by Kjell Eide is drawn, with the authorization of the author and of OECD.Chairman of the Governing Board of the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. Numerous publications in the field of educational planning and policy.