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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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When Conceptions Collide: Constructing a community of inquiry for teacher education in British Columbia
TL;DR: This article described a cohort option in a one-year elementary teacher education program that is based on the idea of building a community of inquiry, and examined conceptual tensions that arise from the various understandings participants have of community and inquiry.
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"Extracting Sun-Beams out of Cucumbers": The Retreat From Practice in Reconceptualized Curriculum Studies
TL;DR: Reconceptualized curriculum theorizing is characterized by efforts to distance curriculum theory far from school practice as discussed by the authors, and it has been characterized as a shift from focus on developing curriculum to a preeminent concern for understanding curriculum and the proclivity to consider virtually all phenomena of life experience as acceptable subjects of curriculum inquiry.
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Reducing Teacher Burnout by Increasing Student Engagement: A Children's Rights Approach.
TL;DR: Teacher burnout has long been understood to have significant negative effects on teaching efficacy as discussed by the authors, and research has indicated that student misbehaviour, often a result of disengagement, is a major pre...
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Work Worth Doing: A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Discovering and Following One’s Calling
TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempted to answer these questions in understanding the experience of work, finding the work that is worth doing for us as individuals, and finding the meaning of our work.
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Becoming an Agroecologist through Action Education
TL;DR: Agroecology provides the framework to organize learning opportunities for students interested in solving challenges in today's world as discussed by the authors, where teachers are converted from lecturers to leaders and catalysts in the learning process.
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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.