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Democracy and education.
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In this article, a critical examination of democratic theory and its implications for the civic education roles and contributions of teachers, adult educators, community development practitioners, and community organizers is presented.Abstract:
Course Description In this course, we will explore the question of the actual and potential connections between democracy and education. Our focus of attention will be placed on a critical examination of democratic theory and its implications for the civic education roles and contributions of teachers, adult educators, community development practitioners, and community organizers. We will survey and deal critically with a range of competing conceptions of democracy, variously described as classical, republican, liberal, radical, marxist, neomarxist, pragmatist, feminist, populist, pluralist, postmodern, and/or participatory. Using narrative inquiry as a means for illuminating and interpreting contemporary practice, we will analyze the implications of different conceptions of democracy for the practical work of civic education.read more
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Contact Theory as a Framework for Experiential Activities as Diversity Education: An Exploratory Study.
TL;DR: The authors found significant changes in participants' attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors following a non-formal diversity education program using adventure-based and community-service activities, and hypothesized program conditions, as outlined by contact theory, were significantly predictive of outcomes, although majority and minority participants differed on their perceptions of these conditions.
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Teaching For and About Critical Pedagogy in the Post-Secondary Classroom
TL;DR: This paper conducted a qualitative study with seventeen self-identified critical pedagogues to examine the social justice-oriented nature of these critical classroom practices, including: dialogue; group work; co-construction of syllabus; and experiential activities.
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Communication Behaviors and Trust in Collaborative Online Teams
TL;DR: The findings showed that the groups with different trust levels showed different communication behaviors throughout the study, and midpoint of the group life was found critical moment for increasing or decreasing pattern of communication behaviors.
The need for equality in education: An intersectionality examination of labeling and zero tolerance practices
Wanda Cassidy,Margaret Jackson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors observe that students in school who exhibit challenging behaviors are given labels such as "severe behaviour", "troubled", or "violent", and that these negative labels have repercussions on students.
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The Effects of School Gardens on Children's Science Knowledge: A randomized controlled trial of low-income elementary schools
Nancy M. Wells,Beth M. Myers,Lauren E. Todd,Karen Barale,Brad Gaolach,Gretchen Ferenz,Martha Aitken,Charles Henderson,Caroline Tse,Karen Ostlie Pattison,Cayla Taylor,Laura Connerly,Janet B. Carson,Alexandra Z. Gensemer,Nancy K. Franz,Elizabeth Falk +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of a school garden intervention on the science knowledge of elementary school children were examined, using a 7-item questionnaire focused on nutritional science and plant science.
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Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry
TL;DR: The authors briefly survey forms of narrative inquiry in educational studies and outline certain criteria, methods, and writing forms, which they describe in terms of beginning the story, living the story and selecting stories to construct and reconstruct narrative plots.
A pedagogy of Multiliteracies Designing Social Futures
Bill Cope,Mary Kalantzis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the multiplicity of communications channels and increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in the world today call for a much broader view of literacy than portrayed by traditional language-based approaches.
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Games, Motivation, and Learning: A Research and Practice Model:
TL;DR: An input-processoutput model of instructional games and learning is presented that elaborates the key features of games that are of interest from an instructional perspective; the game cycle of user judgments, behavior, and feedback that is a hallmark of engagement in game play; and the types of learning outcomes that can be achieved.
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The Construction of Shared Knowledge in Collaborative Problem Solving
TL;DR: This paper focuses on the processes involved in collaboration using a microanalysis of one dyad’s work with a computer-based environment (the Envisioning Machine) and shows how this shared conceptual space is constructed through the external mediational framework of shared language, situation and activity.
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What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy
Joel Westheimer,Joseph Kahne +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the spectrum of ideas about what good citizenship is and what good citizens do that are embodied in democratic education programs and demonstrate that the narrow and often ideologically conservative conception of citizenship embedded in many current efforts at teaching for democracy reflects not arbitrary choices but, rather, political choices with political consequences.