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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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The Political Socialization of Adolescents in Canada: Differential Effects of Civic Education on Visible Minorities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of civic education on political attitudes and behaviours of 15-17-year-olds from a visible minority background in Canada and found that adolescents from visible minority backgrounds do not benefit disproportionately from civic education efforts.
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Facing loss: pedagogy of death
Ramsey Affifi,Beth Christie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the fact that "loss, impermanence, and death are facts of life difficult to face squarely. Our own mortality and that of loved ones feels painful and threatening, the mortality of the biosphere unthinkable."
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Reconceptualising and reframing graduate teaching assistant (GTA) provision for a research-intensive institution
TL;DR: In this paper, an innovative curriculum design that has been created at a research-intensive university to prepare Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) for their role as teachers within higher education is described.
Dissertation
Educators’ responses to key top-down citizenship education related initiatives
TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that the majority of educators who were committed to teaching for diversity and dialogue had had some kind of personal experience which had not only provoked commitment but also provided a personal resource for educators to draw on in the classroom, which in turn helped to increase educators’ confidence to address potentially highly controversial issues.
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Where the attention is: Discovery learning in novel tangible environments
TL;DR: In depth analysis showed close relationships between the different foci of interaction and the learning process: engaging with a tangential activity in a exploratory interaction engendered cognitive engagement with domain related concepts; while engaging with technology to understand the basics of the system's functioning could facilitate higher levels of conceptual abstraction.