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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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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.
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Socrates in the Classroom : Rationales and Effects of Philosophizing with Children
TL;DR: Socratic seminars have long been practiced internationally by educators and philosophers as a supplement to classroom teaching and coaching as mentioned in this paper, however, the rationales and effects of this methodology are questionable.
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Irrational Exuberance for Market-Based Reform: How Federal Turnaround Policies Thwart Democratic Schooling.
Tina Trujillo,Michelle Renée +1 more
TL;DR: Turnaround-style reforms are not only based on unwarranted claims; they ignore contrary research evidence about the potential of mass firings to improve organizational performance as mentioned in this paper, and most of these reforms require massive administrative and teacher layoffs, especially under the turnaround option.
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Rhizomatic cartographies of belonging and identity within early years education
TL;DR: This article used Hellman's notion of pentimento to illustrate the fluidity and multilayeredness of human experience as well as the complex nature of'seeing' where each layer mixes with the other and renders irreversible influences on our perceptions of it.
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Social and Emotional Learning, Moral Education, and Character Education: A Comparative Analysis and a View Toward Convergence
TL;DR: Aristotle's words suggest that humans have long been interested in how best to manage their emotional and social lives as mentioned in this paper, and they have looked to traditional educational environments as places to make progress towards these aims, and have typically been involved in attending to the social-emotional well-being and moral direction of their students, in addition to their intellectual achievements.