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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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Supporting Algebraic Reasoning through Personalized Story Scenarios: How Situational Understanding Mediates Performance
TL;DR: The authors investigated the effect of context personalization on the performance and learning in secondary mathematics by using a series of problem-solving sessions where 24 algebra I students were presented with story problems on linear functions.
Do Hands-On, Technology-Based Activities Enhance Learning by Reinforcing Cognitive Knowledge and Retention?
TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that students who participated in a hands-on group assignment would have higher scores the day after instruction than those who did not participate in a group assignment.
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Developing Interdisciplinary Researchers: What Ever Happened to the Humanities in Education?
TL;DR: In this article, the author challenges an emerging view, widely regarded as commonsensical, about the proper nature of interdisciplinarity in education and what counts as good education research and devotes particular attention to the problem of determining and distinguishing ends and means and the dangers of narrowness.
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Culturally Responsive Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports: A Process-Oriented Framework for Systemic Transformation.
TL;DR: Culturally Responsive Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (CRPBIS) as mentioned in this paper is the first framework to operationalize cultural responsiveness in the context of positive behavioral interventions and supports.
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Exploring the Relations between Childhood Experiences in Nature and Young Adults' Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours.
TL;DR: In this paper, a research study with young adults who explored the connections between their early childhood experiences in nature and their attitudes and actions towards the environment in adulthood, found that the correlations between expressed views about caring for the environment and environmentally friendly actions were surprising, however, as actions did not necessarily align with beliefs.