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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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Youth-Adult Partnerships: Entering New Territory in Community Work and Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the dimensions that make up the construct of youth-adult partnerships and the conditions affecting the practice of youth adult partnerships and conclude that changes in the lenses of both research and practice will open new directions for reaping the wisdom of youthadult partnerships.
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Democracy, Civic Participation, and the University: A Comparative Study of Civic Engagement on Five Campuses
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of civic engagement on five campuses was conducted, and four key findings emerged: shifting and varying emphases in main components of engagement; local factors that facilitate and present barriers to engagement; intellectual rationales and projects to drive new knowledge, involve faculty, and institutionalize and sustain engagement; and new organizational structures to link the campus and community and share power and resources.
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The Project Method: Its Vocational Education Origin and International Development.
TL;DR: This paper used the history of the project method as an educational and learning device through five phases beginning in 1590 and continuing through to the present day to illustrate the need to base ideas for modern educational reform in the historical context.
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Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy
TL;DR: Teachers' work in a post-Fordist era: The case of the teacher-managers of Gallipoli High School 5.Teacher's work-stories account of professionalism and intensification: the case of Appleton College 6.Towards a revitalisation of a critical theory of teachers' work as discussed by the authors.
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Reframing the Concept of Reflection: Consciousness, Experiential Learning, and Reflective Learning Practices.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a perspective of embodied experiential learning should not give preference to the body over the mind as a source of knowledge, and that reflective practices can facilitate a learning dialogue between our implicit embodied experience and conceptual aspects of our consciousness.