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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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An Integrative Curriculum Model Preparing Physical Therapists for Vision 2020 Practice
Debra Sellheim,Mary Weddle +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a physical therapist curricular model is described to support efficient and effective learning to prepare physical therapists for practice according to Vision 2020 standards, where courses are structured around physical therapist practice settings and content in each course is organized into four streams: (1) Medical and Behavioral Science; (2) Practice Environment; (3) Examination, Evaluation, Diagnosis; and (4) Plan of Care, Intervention, Outcomes).
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An Action-Research Project Community Lead Poisoning Prevention
TL;DR: In this article, an action-research project focused on gathering data on awareness of lead poisoning, as well as disseminating information on lead poisoning prevention in a metropolitan midwestern city is presented.
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A View from the Trenches Comments on Miller’s “Why Old Pragmatism Needs An Upgrade”
TL;DR: For example, this paper pointed out that experiential knowledge is vastly overrated and not to be entirely trusted in the practice of daily governance, and pointed out the need for a newer, improved version of pragmatism.
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Elementary Social Studies: Trite, Disjointed, and in Need of Reform?
TL;DR: This article proposed a new social studies curriculum that addresses the interests of most stakeholders and offers meaningful social studies education to elementary students, by including all social studies disciplines, drawing on the time-honored conceptual structures of individual social studies, and relying on the current standards of social studies learned societies.
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Collaborative course design to support implementation of e-learning by instructors
TL;DR: In this paper, a collaborative course design in design teams is applied as a strategy for effective professional development in preparing instructors on course (re-)design and delivery of courses using Moodle learning management system (Moodle LMS).