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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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School Engagement Among Urban Youth of Color Criterion Pattern Effects of Vocational Exploration and Racial Identity
TL;DR: This article investigated the effects of vocational education on academic achievement, motivation, and dropout in high school students, and found that school engagement is a multifaceted psychosocial process that functions as a key mediator of academic achievement and motivation.
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Assessing Creative Potential World-wide: The First Cross-cultural Application of the Test for Creative Thinking—Drawing Production (TCT-DP)
Hans G. Jellen,Klaus K. Urban +1 more
TL;DR: The first cross-cultural application of the TCT-DP (Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production) assessed low, average, and high creative potential of 569 subjects tested in eleven countries as discussed by the authors.
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Lifelong learning and the limitations of economic determinism
TL;DR: The contemporary efflorescence of lifelong learning discourse in education and social planning is argued to be, substantially, the product of economic determinism as mentioned in this paper, which may best be seen, accordingly, as seriously regressive, counter-ethical and non-liberatory.
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A Pragmatist Revisioning of Resistance Theory
TL;DR: This paper used the notion of transactionalism to interpret and critique resistance theories in education, and presented a theoretical framework for future inquiry into school opposition, which leads to a more relational reading of resistance and can promote school-based inquiry (rather than simple avoidance or punishment).
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A Political Economy of Learning Disabilities
TL;DR: The authors reviewed earlier contributions to learning disabilities research, reflect on trends since then, and offer suggestions or predictions for the future of the field, and identified several trends in education and society and recommend that the field of learning disabilities join the struggle to create a strong democratic future for students and communities.
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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.