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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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Teacher Preparation for Inclusive and Critical (Special) Education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a preservice program for single and dual certification master's students to teach in inclusive classrooms, including what the author means by inclusive education and critical special education, explanations of key pedagogical and assessment practices that she leans on to meet her goals, and an account of how the program came to be developed.
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Service-Learning in Dental Education: Meeting Needs and Challenges
TL;DR: Challenges that confront schools desiring to implement and sustain service-learning programs are described, including academic quality, faculty development and training, interprofessionalism, making time in the curriculum, budget, faculty shortages and time, student credit, quality control, and remote sites away from the dental school.
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School Turnaround Fever: The Paradoxes of a Historical Practice Promoted as a New Reform
Craig Peck,Ulrich C. Reitzug +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the historical roots, current recommended practices, and outcomes to date of the turnaround reform movement in urban schools and found a series of vexing paradoxes that characterize the recent fervor for school turnaround at the same time they signal the promise and pitfalls of the reform idea.
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Towards an activist approach to research and advocacy for girls and physical education
Kimberly L. Oliver,David Kirk +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an activist approach is proposed to work with girls in physical education as one possible means of breaking the reproductive cycle of research and media reporting that has worked against improving the situation for girls.
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Schooling for Democracy
TL;DR: The authors argued that instead of insisting on more and more standardization, we should be increasing variety, flexibility, and choice in what we offer in our schools, instead of forcing all secondary students to take traditional academic programs.
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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.