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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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Negotiating the Politics of Citizenship Education
TL;DR: APSA is posting this article for public view on its website as mentioned in this paper, which is fully accessible to APSA members and institutional subscribers and can be found at http://journals.cup.cambridge.edu.
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‘This is My Truth, Tell Me Yours’. Deconstructive pragmatism as a philosophy for education
TL;DR: One way to characterise pragmatism is to see it as a philosophy that placed communication at the heart of philosophical, educational, and political thinking as discussed by the authors, whereas the shift from consciousness to...
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Philosophical Accounts of Learning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors further delineate and then challenge each of these basic assumptions and the main implication of challenging them is that the best learning can be expressed verbally and written down in books, the process and product can be sharply distinguished, and, though residing in minds and books, it can be applied, via bodies, to alter the external world.
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Laptop Technology and Pedagogy in the English Language Arts Classroom
TL;DR: In this article, the English Language Arts teachers in a qualitative study reported somewhat negative outcomes in social and material spaces in the context of laptop technology in their classrooms, such as social isolation, limited communication with a teacher or peers, and off-task behavior.
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On poetry, pragmatism and the urban possibility of creative democracy
TL;DR: The concept of creative democracy was introduced by John Dewey, more than a half-century ago, as a moral practice of radical equality in the pragmatic, collective project of hammering out answers to the question of how we should live as mentioned in this paper.