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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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Community Based Learning
TL;DR: In this article, CBL staff will also contact the community partner where the community-based learning assignment/project was completed, and the Community Partner will be asked to complete a recommendation.
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The Metatheoretical Assumptions of Literacy Engagement: A Preliminary Centennial History
George G. Hruby,Leslie David Burns,Stergios Botzakis,Susan L. Groenke,Leigh A. Hall,Judson Laughter,Richard L. Allington +6 more
TL;DR: This article examined the historical succession of theoretical frameworks on students' active participation in their own literacy learning, and in particular the metatheoretical assumptions that justify those frameworks, and used motivation and engagement as focal topics by which to trace this history because of their conceptual proximity to active literacy participation.
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The Froebel movement and state schooling 1880-1914 : A study in educational ideology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relation between the Froebel movement and state schooling in England between 1880 and 1914, and they argued that the movement functioned as an ideology which expressed the interests of middle class women in the sphere of schooling and in particular, the women who were for political or religious reasons excluded from the dominant culture of the power bloc.
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Social Studies Teachers' Conceptions of Discussion: A Grounded Theory Study.
TL;DR: The authors developed an initial theory of teachers' conceptions of classroom discussion and found that teachers thought of discussion as recitation, teacher-directed conversation, open-ended conversation, a series of challenging questions, guided transfer of knowledge to the world outside the classroom, and practice at verbal interaction.
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The Rise of a Chinese Bourgeoisie and the Potential for Democratic Transition
TL;DR: The authors examines the logic of China's political history and the potential for its democratic political transformation in the 21st century using the ideas of Moore and Skocpol to explain the emergence of the liberal democratic political order in the 18th century western transformations as organized by an emerging bourgeoisie.
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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.