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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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Preparing Moral Educators in an Era of Standards-Based Reform.
TL;DR: The authors argued that moral education must be one of two generic aims of education; the other is teaching academic content and skills, and the current standards-based environment, embodied at the federal level in the United States by the No Child Left Behind legislation of 2001, typically has the effect of diminishing the status of moral education.
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Tour Guides as Critically Reflective Practitioners: A Proposed Training Model
Peter Mason,Michael Christie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of tour guide training in Kakadu National Park (Australia) indicating possibilities for future development, is presented, with the triple objective of improving the quality of guiding, augmenting the commercial value of tourism, alongside assuring the sustainability aspect of destinations.
ICOPROMO – Intercultural competence for professional mobility
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe psychological and sociological aspects of interculturality and how it is related to democratic citizenship and social responsibility, and develop a theoretical model, based on a quantitative study in four countries.
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"So, you're from Brixton?": towards a social psychology of community
TL;DR: The authors examined the social psychological significance of "community", as it is experienced and talked about in Brixton, a culturally diverse area in South London, and found that communities emerge as sites of struggle in the negotiation of self-identity, belonging and difference.
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Recalling 40 years of teacher education in the USA: a personal essay
TL;DR: In this paper, the author describes developments within teacher education in the USA over a 40-year period, since the founding of JET, and describes major movements in teacher education, discusses several of the most influential ideas within the field and, by drawing on publications of the period, notes the influence of certain political and education figures.