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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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Deweyan Pragmatism and the Epistemology of Contemporary Social Constructivism
TL;DR: In the quest for an epistemology that supports theories of situated cognition and social constructivism, educational theorists and researchers have overlooked one of the most familiar figures in the modern history of educational inquiry as mentioned in this paper.
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The Culture of Sexual Harassment in Secondary Schools
TL;DR: This paper investigated the frequency, severity, and consequences of sexual harassment in American secondary schools, using survey data from a nationally representative sample of 1,203 8th to 11th graders in 79 public schools.
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The Meaning of Scholarly Activity and the Building of Community
TL;DR: Goodlad as mentioned in this paper was a sixth grade teacher in a fast-growing suburb of Los Angeles, where the school was new; the district was building a new school every year; and some students in my class had been to as many as 12 schools.
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The effects of adding metacognitive language to story texts
TL;DR: The authors investigated whether exposing Kindergarten children to metacognitive language results in a greater conceptual understanding of mental states, and increased production and comprehension of meta-cognitive vocabulary, and found that hearing numerous metACognitive terms in stories is less important than having to actively construct one's own mentalistic interpretations from illustrations and text that implicitly draw attention to mental states.
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Research Methods for Non-Representational Approaches to Organizational Complexity: The Dialogical Mediated Inquiry:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the methodological implications of non-representational approaches to organizational complexity and suggest the use of a triadic theory of interpretation, and more particularly the concepts of semiotic mediation, inquiry and dialogism.
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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.