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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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Ugly in a world where you can choose to be beautiful: teaching and learning about diversity via virtual worlds
Joey J. Lee,Christopher Hoadley +1 more
TL;DR: Students participated in activities within massively multiplayer online games as learning environments to explore issues of identity construction, discrimination, and cultural sensitivity, and evidence suggests they were able to develop a more sophisticated, less essentialist model of diversity.
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Inclusive Education in Chinese Primary Schools – A Critical Realist Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the exclusion and inclusion of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities in Chinese primary schools is examined. But the focus of the study is on the four planes of social being: bodies in material relations with nature, interpersonal relations, social structures and inner being.
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Linking the Classroom and the Clinic: A Model of Integrated Clinical Education for First-Year Physical Therapist Students
Mary Weddle,Debra Sellheim +1 more
TL;DR: An education model in a doctor of physical therapy (DPT) program that collaborates with multiple clinical facilities to provide integrated (part‐time) clinical education experiences for first‐year physical therapist students is described.
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A Response to Elias
TL;DR: According to as discussed by the authors, the concept of adulthood came into vogue after the Civil War and was originally used not to connote an age span but a condition of subservience.
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School Governance and Information: Does Choice Lead to Better-Informed Parents?
Brian Kisida,Patrick J. Wolf +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that presenting parents with choices does lead to significantly higher levels of accurate information on measures of important school characteristics, while a lack of any increase in information levels among school choosers would suggest that having choices per se is not sufficient motivation to overcome the costs of information gathering