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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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Teachers' Perceptions of Critical Thinking: A Study of Jordanian Secondary School Social Studies Teachers
TL;DR: This paper conducted research in Jordan, where they interviewed secondary school social studies teachers about their perspectives on teaching critical-thinking skills in their classrooms and found that teachers have little familiarity with the definition and teaching strategies of critical thinking; the Jordanian Ministry of Education requires teachers to teach critical thinking only to a small extent.
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21st Century Learning: Professional Development in Practice
TL;DR: This paper conducted an evaluative study of a professional development program at Rolling Meadows (pseudonym), a well-established, K-12 independent school located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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Information Seeking and Use by Secondary Students: The Link between Good Practice and the Avoidance of Plagiarism.
Christina Mary Crawford Williamson,Joy H. McGregor,Alyson Archibald,Jeanette Margaret Sullivan +3 more
TL;DR: The authors report phase 1 of a two-year study that focused on seeking and use of information by students at various stages of their secondary education, including preferences for information sources, self-perception of information skills, help from other people, trust in and perceived reliability of sources, attitudes to information seeking, recording and use, and attribution of information sources.
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Mindfulness-based interventions and the affective domain of education
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that mindfulness practice has much to contribute to the neglected area of affective education in the UK system and that it can also provide a foundation for more general cognitive development.
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Emerging communities of practice: collaboration and communication in action research
Bertram C. Bruce,John A. Easley +1 more
TL;DR: The Dialogues in Methods of Education (DIME) group as discussed by the authors is a group of school and university faculty who have studied together how to improve their own teaching practices through research, the sharing of ideas and mutual support.
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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.