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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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More than relations between self, others and nature: outdoor education and aesthetic experience
TL;DR: The authors explored two emphases within experience expressed by Peirce that offer differing ways of understanding experience: in one emphasis self, others and nature are submerged and not discerned; in the other they appear as the three familiar and related elements.
The NICE project: Narrative, Immersive, Constructionist/Collaborative Environments for Learning in Virtual Reality
TL;DR: The NICE project as discussed by the authors is an immersive learning environment for children implemented in the CAVE and related multi-user virtual reality (VR) technologies, where children construct and cultivate simple virtual ecosystems, collaborate via networks with other remotely-located children, and create stories from their interactions in the real and virtual world.
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Thriving in the Multicultural Classroom: Principles and Practices for Effective Teaching
Mary Dilg,Vivian Gussin Paley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the special needs of adolescents and recommend ways of thinking about curriculum and pedagogy that will enable both teachers and children to thrive, which will help teachers understand and enjoy working with students from different cultural backgrounds.
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Course Curricular Design and Development of the M.Sc. Programme in the Field of Ict in Education for Sustainable Development
TL;DR: The design and development of a virtual learning enviroment (VLE) for a M.Sc.
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Higher Education Research at the Millennium: Still Trees without Fruit?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether a gap exists between researchers' and practitioners' ideas about what constitutes significance and usefulness in content, methodology, and format, and found that both groups agreed that the higher education literature does not provide memorable, insightful, or important professional information.
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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.