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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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Nourishing Conversations: Urban Adolescents, Literacy, and Democratic Society.
TL;DR: This article explored the implications of literacy instruction aimed at "nourishing conversations" about life experience in literacy classrooms (Robinson, 1991, p. 264), and drew on literacy projects to draw on the experiences of students.
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Perspectives on international schools and the nature and extent of local community contact
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of public relations is a wide-ranging one and local community contact is usually a key area of activity for international schools. But this activity with regard to international schools has generally drawn cr...
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Respect-due and respect-earned: negotiating student–teacher relationships
TL;DR: In this paper, a distinction between minimal and full respect is made by separating respect-due from respect-earned, based on the assumption that children, possessing of human dignity, but without perspective and reasoning ability, are entitled to the most minimal respect.
Social Reconstruction Curriculum and Technology Education
TL;DR: In the first half of the century, during the depths of the Great Depression, Progressive educators set out to reform education by calling for a social reconstruction curriculum orientation as discussed by the authors and explored social reconstruction with regard to schools, curriculum, and technology education.
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Constructing Pedagogical Knowledge of Problem Solving: Preservice Mathematics Teachers.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report a study of the knowledge preservice secondary school mathematics teachers hold of problem solving and the role of a reflectiveinquiry approach in creating self-awareness of, and in enhancing, this knowledge.
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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.