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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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Cruising in the 21st century: Who works while others play?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the views of employees across a number of cruise brands to find out what it is like to work and live on a modern cruise ship, and found that multiculturalism, globalisation, the increase in numbers of mega-cruise ships and changing passenger demography suggest that the work environment is not as it might once have been.
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Self-Regulation in Democratic Communities.
TL;DR: Self-regulation is defined as the planful pursuit of goals that is flexible and promotes individual growth and social change as discussed by the authors, and it is characterized by three types and levels of person-context interactions: internalization and close personal relations, empowerment and contingent environments, and future orientation and social capital.
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Doing Reflective Supervision with Student Teachers in a Professional Development School Culture
TL;DR: The authors describes a developing model of student teaching supervision that centers on reflective practice for student teachers, co-operating teachers, and supervisors as members of a community of learners, which emerged as a result of collaborative efforts between a professor, principal, and co-operative teachers in a Professional Development School site over a period of three years.
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Children's experiences of the first year of primary school
TL;DR: In this paper, a study with first grade children and their views on the primary school curriculum, as well as their influence on decision-making in school was conducted with 20 six and seven-year-old children in one primary school in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Youth online activity and exposure to diverse perspectives
TL;DR: Drawing on a unique panel survey of the online practices and civic and political engagement of youth (aged 16–21), it is found that most youth do not report exposure to echo chambers or divergent perspectives.
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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.