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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 concept of the absent curriculum: the case of the Muslim contribution and the English National Curriculum for history
TL;DR: The concept of the absent curriculum was introduced by as mentioned in this paper, who argued that the study of curriculum has been prone to privileging curricular presence to the exclusion of curricular absence.
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Integrative Thinking and Learning in Undergraduate Nursing Education: Three Strategies
TL;DR: Three learning activities used in the undergraduate nursing degree program at a mid-sized university in northeastern Ontario, Canada are described, each of which is considered in terms of integrative thinking.
Can Schools Enter a Knowledge Society
TL;DR: The idea of a knowledge building community as mentioned in this paper presents a third alternative, an alternative that encompasses the other two, and is built into the social fabric of the community, and into the technologies that support knowledge work.
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3: Epistemological Perspectives on Conceptions of Curriculum Organization and Learning
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the conceptual properties of the subject matter to be learned and how to best describe educational objectives, and what kinds of learning outcomes should be expected from teaching students the structure of knowledge.
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Animating Talk and Texts: Culturally Relevant Teacher Read-Alouds of Informational Texts
TL;DR: In this paper, the classroom interactions surrounding teacher read-alouds of nonfiction texts in the classroom of a teacher who strived for cultural relevancy were described. Participants in this study we...