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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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Learning by Doing: Engaging Students Through Learner-Centered Activities
Karl L. Smart,Nancy Csapo +1 more
TL;DR: The Writeaway Hotels simulation as discussed by the authors is an interactive, web-based example of active learning, where students learn to manage and reply to the myriad messages they will undoubtedly receive on the job.
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Making judgments as the basis for workplace learning: towards an epistemology of practice
David Beckett,Paul Hager +1 more
TL;DR: Workplace learning has emerged as a significant site of adults' informal experiential learning, with implications for the provision and shape of formal education as discussed by the authors, however, a prohibitive number of variables encumbering research into such learning can bypass the variables by focusing on phenomenal accounts of how professionals make judgements at work.
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Attending to Student Voice: The Impact of Descriptive Feedback on Learning and Teaching
TL;DR: This paper explored the central role that description of experience, on the part of both teacher and students, plays in reflective practice and highlighted the power of students' description of their own learning as revealed to teachers in dialogue, a process I call descriptive feedback.
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The Moral and the Political in Global Citizenship: Appreciating Differences in Education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguish between three forms of modern global citizenship: open global citizenship, moral global citizenship and social-political global citizenship (SGP), and interview teachers on their visions and practices concerning global citizenship education.
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The Phoenix Agenda: Essential Reform in Teacher Education
Bruce R. Joyce,Renee T. Clift +1 more
TL;DR: Teacher education as discussed by the authors is a field surrounded by critics, it is inhabited by them, its graduates, current students, faculty, and administrators generate at least as much fury toward it as do the politicians, pundits, and serious scholars who reside outside it.