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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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Assessing Reflection Assignments for Public Affairs Courses: Implications for Educating Reflective Practitioners
TL;DR: This article used an assessment tool to evaluate reflection assignments in the context of teaching public affairs courses, drawing references to experiential learning theories, and explores implications for educating reflective practitioners in public affairs.
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What is Worthwhile: From Knowing and Needing to Being and Sharing
TL;DR: In this paper, what is worthwhile: From Knowing and Needing to Being and Sharing, the authors discuss the difference between knowing and needing and being and sharing, and discuss the importance of sharing.
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Vocational and Academic Education and Political Engagement: The Importance of the Educational Institutional Structure
TL;DR: This article examined the relevance of national educational institutional factors, such as early tracking and a vocational orientation, to political engagement of young adult citizens, and found that people who were educated in vocational programs had lower levels of political engagement than people educated in general/academic education, and these differences were greater in strongly tracked educational systems relative to comprehensive/untracked systems.
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Distributed leadership: principals describe shared roles in a PDS
TL;DR: The authors examined principals' descriptions of the implementation of an urban professional development school (PDS) network through the lens of a distributed leadership framework, in order to explore the role of the principal and its relationship to the goals of a PDS and its major stakeholders.
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Critical thinking and the academic vocational divide
TL;DR: This article argued that the very meanings of critical, academic and vocational depend upon the context and purpose of thinking and it is misleading to suggest that thinking is any kind of a skill and that when the idea of critical thinking is informed curricular policy and practice, far from bridging an academic vocational divide, the idea will actually widen it.
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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.