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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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Trusting What You Know: Negotiating the Relational Context of Classroom Life
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that children have remarkable abilities to read the relational tenor of their classrooms and shape their spoken knowledge accordingly, and demonstrate that students' construction of trustworthy knowledge in school depends heavily on the quality of their relationships with teachers and peers.
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Augmented by reality: the pedagogical praxis of urban planning as a pathway to ecological thinking*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a study focused on developing students' understanding of ecology through participation in a technology-supported urban planning simulation, specifically, 11 high school students in Madison, Wisconsin acted as urban planners to redesign a local shopping street using a Geographic Information System (GIS) model.
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Beyond the Three R's: A Broader Agenda for School Reform
TL;DR: This paper discuss three classes of non-academic outcomes that schools should explicitly seek to foster in their students (social, ethical, and civic dispositions; attitudes toward school and learning motivation; and metacognitive skills) and provide some guidance about how educators might try to accomplish these goals.
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The developmental quality of participation experiences: beyond the rhetoric that "participation is always good!".
TL;DR: Results support the argument that participation is not good in itself and that some experiences, with lesser developmental quality, might have a detrimental effect on adolescents' political development.
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Citizen health care: A model for engaging patients, families, and communities as coproducers of health.
TL;DR: How citizen health care differs from other models of collaborative and community-based work is discussed, and research and training directions are outlined.
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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.