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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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Ecological Democracy: An Environmental Approach to Citizenship Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the underlying nature of our contemporary situation and argues for a synthesis of citizenship education and ecological consciousness, arguing that such an approach is imperative for the good of society and the health of the planet.
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Apprenticeship as a Transition to Adulthood in West Germany
TL;DR: One means of gaining an ecological perspective on adolescent development is to examine another country's institutions for youth as mentioned in this paper, where half of West Germany's 16-18-year-olds are apprentices, learning a career in the workplace while attending school only one day a week.
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Experiential learning and international collaboration opportunities: virtual internships
TL;DR: The concept of a virtual internship is entirely appropriate given the focus on digital tools, information and systems in digital curation.
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The lived experience of academic practice: academics’ beliefs and their practices of assessment
TL;DR: In this article, a study of a group of academics at an Australian university and how their beliefs impacted their assessment practice was conducted, finding that an academic's beliefs do have a role in their assessment practices.
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Research on the Boundaries: Narrative Inquiry in the Midst of Organized School Reform
TL;DR: In this paper, the narrative inquirer is depicted as part of a human parade, situated on a continuum of time, place, the personal, and the social, and is complicit not only in what stories become lived and relived but also in how stories become told and retold about experiences encountered and enacted in the field of education.