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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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Lesson study for learning community (LSLC): conceptualising teachers’ practices within a social justice perspective
Eisuke Saito,Matthew Atencio +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the philosophical underpinnings of LSLC, with particular emphasis on its social justice nature, particularly in reference to criticisms against neo-liberal reform agendas.
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Students Learning Agroecology: Phenomenon-Based Education for Responsible Action
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore three crucial issues related to agroecological education and learning: (1) the phenomenological foundation for learning agro-ecology in higher education; (2) the process of students' interactions with a wide range of various learners within and outside the university environment; and (3) the unique characteristics of agro ecology as a discipline and why these require different ways of learning than the conventional academic education.
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Habits as Social Tools in Context
TL;DR: In the tradition of American pragmatism, occupational capacity is embodied in the habits of a person's body These habits are living functions involving thought, feeling, and attitudes that allow the person to carry out the various practices that occupy him or her in daily life Such habits are artistic modes of self-expression; they are how people engage and transform the world for their purposes.
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Evaluation Criteria for Interactive E-Books for Open and Distance Learning
Aras Bozkurt,Müjgan Bozkaya +1 more
TL;DR: The aim of this mixed method study is to identify evaluation criteria for interactive e-books through a four-round Delphi study with a panel consisting of 30 experts and the results and their implications are discussed.
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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.