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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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Game Sense as a model for delivering quality teaching in physical education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the New South Wales Quality Teaching Framework (QTF) to identify what might constitute quality teaching in physical education and to suggest the extent to which Game Sense pedagogy can be seen to meet the expectations of the NSW QTF.
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Building Professional Learning Communities Within a University—Public School Partnership
TL;DR: The authors describes work being done within the Brigham Young University (BYU) Public School Partnership to form and sustain such communities across higher and public education and in ways consistent with the four aims of the Agenda for Education in a Democracy embraced by the National Network for Educational Renewal.
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Finding the place of everyday beauty: Correspondence as a method of data collection
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concepts of invisibility, time, and tangibility in defining correspondence as a method and argue that correspondence is a method that works well in cumulating data for research It has also proven to be a rewarding method for the participants.
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The Parallels Between Philosophical Inquiry and Scientific Inquiry: Implications for science education
Gilbert Burgh,Kim Nichols +1 more
TL;DR: The notion of communities of discipline-based inquiry engaged in the construction of knowledge was formulated by C. S. Peirce as mentioned in this paper, who defined a community of inquiry as a "community of inquiry" grounded in the notion of discipline.
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Pragmatism and the prospects of sociological theory
TL;DR: The authors argue that the new pragmatism is at odds with the animating thrust of the "old" pragmatic approach associated with James, Dewey and Mead, arguing that each position fails to recognize the unifying role played by problem-solving in the original pragmatist approach, and this, in turn, provides a more satisfactory way of resolving some dilemmas of contemporary sociological theory.
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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.