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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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Transdisciplinary case studies as a means of sustainability learning: Historical framework and theory
TL;DR: The transdisciplinary case study approach (TCS) as mentioned in this paper is a research and teaching approach developed and elaborated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) as a means of transition support.
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Equity Issues in Parental and Community Involvement in Schools: What Teacher Educators Need to Know.
TL;DR: The authors examine the literature on parental involvement highlighting the equity issues that it raises in educational practice and argue that these framings restrict the ways in which parents from nondominant backgrounds can be productive social actors who can shape and influence schools and other social institutions.
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Realism, Deweyan Pragmatism, and Educational Research:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the most important aspects of Dewey's philosophy, including his social behaviorist theory of meaning, his naturalistic metaphysics, philosophy of nature, social constructivism, and transactional realism, and conclude by trying to show how all of these themes converge into the defense of democracy as not only the best form of government but also the best way for the community of educators to conduct and consume educational research.
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Building Citizenship: How Student Voice in Service-Learning Develops Civic Values
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of service learning programs on students' self-concept, political engagement, and attitudes toward outgroups, and found that if students are involved in service-learning projects in which they have a high degree of voice and ownership, their selfconcept and political engagement will improve, and they become more tolerant toward out-groups.
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Thinking Aloud and Reading Comprehension Research: Inquiry, Instruction, and Social Interaction:
Linda Kucan,Isabel L. Beck +1 more
TL;DR: A review of research on thinking aloud in reading comprehension that considers thinking aloud as a method of inquiry, a mode of instruction, and a means for encouraging social interaction can be found in this paper.