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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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Democratic Dispositions and Cultural Competency Ingredients for School Renewal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the current school reform movement of high-stakes testing is misguided and propose two ideas for what should permeate the work in U.S. public schools.
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Transcending the Technology of Telemedicine: An Analysis of Telemedicine in North Carolina
TL;DR: The goal of this study was to apply interpretive paradigmatic assumptions in the privileging of telemedicine as the very context of the organization and explain how organizational members make sense of this new way of providing health care.
Active-Learning Pedagogies as a Reform Initiative: Synthesis of Case Studies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the focus and methods of case studies focusing on Cambodia, Egypt, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, and Malawi, which were designed to address the following questions: 1. How and to what extent do key (government and USAID) education strategy and policy reform documents address the issues of active learning pedagogies (e.g., in relation to behavioral and cognitive dimensions)? 2. What are the structure, content, and processes of professional development activities designed to promote active-learning pedagies, and in what ways, if at all
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The Ecology of Democratic Learning Communities: Faculty Trust and Continuous Learning in Public Middle Schools.
TL;DR: This article integrated three complex social processes (democratic community, faculty trust, and organizational learning) into a single testable model, and integrated them into a cross-sectional explanatory study, which integrated the three social processes into a testable framework.
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Beyond ADHD: a consideration of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and pedagogy in Australian schools
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that current pedagogical practices around ADHD focus on integrating students rather than inclusive education, and propose possible resources that might help educators move beyond asking why students.