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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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Distinctively American: The Liberal Arts College.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the following questions: In view of their acknowledged problems, have liberal arts colleges lost their relevance and do they, in terms of their traditional mission as liberal arts institutions, face extinction? If so, and the "natural selection" process is allowed to proceed, does it matter? If it matters, why? What are the options for survival? And would "responsible citizenship," as an active ingredient, contribute significantly as a force for breathing new life and viability into the liberal arts mission?
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Secondary Student Perceptions of Their Class Activities regarding Meaningfulness, Challenge, Choice, and Appeal: An Initial Validation Study
TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory factor analysis was used to examine the construct validity of the scores, and internal consistency alpha reliability estimates were calculated for the four factors that were derived from the data.
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School inclusion and the ‘community of practice’
TL;DR: Inclusion is not a mechanism for relocating educationally disadvantaged youngsters in mainstream rather than in special schools as mentioned in this paper, rather, inclusion implies a whole school approach to social relati...
Design learning for tomorrow
TL;DR: Reitan et al. as mentioned in this paper propose that design education in general education represents both a foundation for professional design education and a vital requirement for developing the general public's competence for informed decision making.
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Young Adolescent Voices: Students' Perceptions of Interdisciplinary Teaming.
Susan J. Boyer,Penny A. Bishop +1 more
TL;DR: McEwin et al. as mentioned in this paper used a multi-genre approach to represent the findings, including analytic writing, student-produced photographs, narrative vignette, and poetic transcription, to describe and analyze young adolescents' perceptions of effective interdisciplinary teaming.
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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.