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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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From saying to doing interdisciplinary learning: Is problem-based learning the answer?
TL;DR: In this article, the intentions and principles of interdisciplinary learning and problem-based learning are examined, and three distinct barriers need to be addressed in order to realize the potentials of inter-disciplinary learning in problem based settings.
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Conclusion: cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition and l2 instruction—issues for research
Peter Robinson,Nick C. Ellis +1 more
TL;DR: Cognitive Linguistics describes how cognitive routines (focusing attention, event construal) and conceptual structure interface with language in the mind, and how the processes that give rise to learning are embodied in adaptive responses to communicative contexts and task demands.
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Excellence for all children false promises! The failure of current policy for inclusive education and implications for schooling in the 21st century
TL;DR: This paper argued that the claims of current UK education policy, for children with special educational needs (SEN) toprovide excellence and equality of opportunity, are false and argued that as long as the organization of schooling, the curriculum, and assessment and testing procedures remain unchallenged, equal educational opportunity will remain amyth.
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Towards decolonizing the pan‐Canadian science framework
TL;DR: The authors decolonize the pan-canadians science framework by decollecting the pan Canadian science framework, and present a pan-Canadian science framework for decolonizing the pancanadian science framework.
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From Margins to Center: Developing Cultural Citizenship Education Through the Teaching of Asian American History
TL;DR: This article used Asian Critical Race Theory to explore how teachers drew from their own cultural and linguistic experiences to inform pedagogies of cultural citizenship education that interrogated what it means to be a citizen.