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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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The Problem of Transfer, and the Sociocultural Critique of Schooling
TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that if sociocultural theory is to make good on its critique of schooling, it must be extended in two respects: in its ontology of the person, and its conception of the society in which we live.
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Why Is Dissemination So Difficult? The Nature of Teacher Knowledge and the Spread of Curriculum Reform
TL;DR: The authors examines commonly held beliefs about curriculum dissemination from the perspective of a teacher whose campus participated in a major school reform initiative through the presentation of a constellation of fine-grained stories revolving around the teacher's curriculum making as an art educator.
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Institutionalizing Civic Engagement: Shifting Logics and the Cultural Repackaging of Service-Learning in US Higher Education
Michael Lounsbury,Seth Pollack +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors track how initially marginal, anti-institutional service-learning practices became a legitimate component of mainstream curricula in the field of US higher education and argue that the shift from an unarticulated closed-system logic to a situation of contending closed-System and open-Systems can be traced to the emergence of service learning in higher education.
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Democratic Education: A Theoretical Review (2006–2017):
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical review examines how democratic education is conceptualized within educational scholarship, focusing on three hundred and seventy-seven articles published in English language peer-reviewed journals.
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Agile bodies: a new imperative in neoliberal governance
TL;DR: The authors argue that agility can be seen to be aligned both with the neoliberal concept of the entrepreneurial self and also with the "governance turn" whereby policy aims are achieved through the apparently autonomous actions of agents, but actions which are heavily steered by various control mechanisms.