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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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Karmila Machmud : Peereviewer Learning English as a Foreign Language in the Disruptive Digital Era: The Smartphone Use in EFL Instructions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate and understand high school students' perspectives of using Smartphone use in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and find that the majority of respondents used smartphones to learn English from mobile applications and from open access courses.
Adult Reflections on a High School Choral Music Program: Perceptions of Meaning and Lifelong Influence
TL;DR: Arasi et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the lifelong meaning and influence of participation in a high school choral music program and found that participants valued the high expectations of the choral director and the exposure to many genres of music.
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The Media as Educators, Educational Research, and Autonomous Deliberation
TL;DR: The authors explores the connections between the media's responsibility to educate the public, politically and morally contested education policy debates, and public information and deliberation, and argues that it is crucial for education policy researchers to clarify the competing perspectives on policy disputes by providing theory and research-based information to the public.
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Civic Education and Citizen Engagement: Mobilizing Voters as a Required Field Experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, the benefits and challenges of requiring undergraduate political science students to act outside the classroom to mobilize voters are discussed, and the value of involving students directly in electoral politics is discussed.
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Envisioning Valuable Lives: Moral Imagining, Autonomy and Philosophy in Childhood
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the Philosophy for Children program is presented as an illustrative example of deliberate moral imagining in action, with the goal of bringing to light possibilities for what seems reasonable to value in order to broaden the moral lens through which lived experiences are approached and assessed.