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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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Not just for special occasions: supporting the professional learning of teachers through critical reflection with audio-visual information
Eisuke Saito,Thi Diem Hang Khong +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a multiple case study of three school leaders in Vietnam to connect their teachers' learning and practice by utilising visual records is presented, showing a progression of models of joint reflection based on visual information, from only occasional reflection to daily critical reflection.
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Learning by Observing and Pitching In: Benefits and Processes of Expanding Repertoires
TL;DR: In a special issue of Human Development on Learning by Observing and Pitching In to Family and Community endeavors (LOPI) as discussed by the authors, the authors argue that everyone can benefit from learni
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Are model PISA pupils happy at school? Quality of school life of adolescents in Finland and Korea
Junghyun Yoon,Tero Järvinen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the quality of school life (QSL) of two "model pupils" in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, Finland and Korea, and investigated students' views on the central aspects of QSL (general satisfaction, peer relations and teacher-student relations) using PISA 2012 data.
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Schools Matter: The Positive Relationship between New York City High Schools' Student Academic Progress and School Climate.
TL;DR: In this paper, the link between school climate and student academic progress in New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) high schools was investigated using a data set compiled from 2010-2011 NYCD...
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Chapter 2: Can We Trace the “Efficacy of Social Constructivism”?
TL;DR: A large corpus of work in which a social constructivist view has been used to design instruction (in math, science, literacy, social studies, etc.) can be found in this paper.
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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.