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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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Creating an Educational Framework for Popular Music in Public Schools: Anticipating the Second-Wave
TL;DR: The authors argued that there is a distinction between "informal learning" and ''informality'' and critiqued the disappearance of the teacher in Lucy Green's new book Music, Informal Learning and the School.
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ClassSearch: facilitating the development of web search skills through social learning
TL;DR: It is concluded that a peripheral display of Web search activity within a classroom facilitates both social learning and teacher-led discourse, and the Class search system embodies principles gleaned from the iterative design process.
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ERIC Review: Learning Communities at the Community College:
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of literature focusing on learning communities is presented, where the deliberate restructuring of curriculum in order to build a community of learners among students and faculty is discussed in relation to the community college mission, faculty and students.
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Philosophy inside out
TL;DR: This paper argued that the contemporary conception of philosophy is a new version of the self-indulgence for the few of which Dewey complained nearly a century ago, and that a renewal of philosophy today should turn the contemporary notion inside out, attending to and developing further the valuable work being done on the supposed ''periphery'' and attending to the ''core areas'' only insofar as is necessary to address genuinely significant questions.
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Teaching Mathematics through Concept Motivation and Action Learning
TL;DR: In this article, a practice-led, conceptual paper describing selected means for action learning and concept motivation at all levels of mathematics education is presented, and the authors argue that the entire K-20 mathematics curriculum under a single umbrella is practicable when techniques of concept motivation and action learning are in place throughout that broad spectrum.
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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.