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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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New Media and New Literacies: Reconstructing Education for the New Millennium
TL;DR: The authors argue that we need multiple literacies for our multicultural society, and that literacies of diverse sorts -including a more fundamental importance for print literacy -are of crucial importance in restructuring education for a high tech and multicultural society and global culture.
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Dimensions of Openness: Beyond the Course as an Open Format in Online Education
TL;DR: Openness is the removal of barriers for interaction and exchange, and not only a matter of providing access to resources or courses, but also providing insight and enabling communication and collaboration across traditional barriers, such as distance and accessibility as discussed by the authors.
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Evaluating a blended-learning course taught to different groups of learners in a dental school.
TL;DR: The majority of the students were satisfied with the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) course and no statistically significant differences between males and females were found, but there were differences between different student cohorts (year groups).
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Examining the Mismatch between Learner-Centered Teaching and Teacher-Centered Supervision:
Cynthia Paris,Suzanne Gespass +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore alternatives to teacher-centered supervision by first supervising each other in their own learner-centered college classrooms, then extrapolating what was learned to their student teaching supervision.
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Social Studies Teachers' Views of Learner-Centered Instruction.
TL;DR: This article explored social studies teachers' views of learner-centered instruction and learning theories by employing the methods and procedures of the qualitative research tradition and found that teachers identified their teaching orientations more with the cognitive and constructivist approach than the behaviorist approach.
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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.