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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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Reshaping Graduate Preparation in Educational Research Methods: One School’s Experience
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the processes and circumstances in which the faculty in a school of education at a research university grappled with these questions and, in time, significantly redesigned its doctoral curriculum.
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Critical Media Literacy: Crucial Policy Choices for a Twenty-First-Century Democracy.
Douglas Kellner,Jeff Share +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of critical media literacy expands the notion of literacy to include different forms of mass communication and popular culture, as well as deepens the potential of literacy education to... as discussed by the authors.
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Democratic Understanding: Cross-National Perspectives.
TL;DR: In the United States, most social studies educators have advocated the development of democratic understanding in youth as mentioned in this paper, and their varied rationales, for the most part, have been rooted in the democratic ideal as understood in the particular context of United States.
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Interactive Andragogy: Principles, Methods, and Skills.
TL;DR: The authors discusses and illustrates interactive teaching principles, methods, and skills such as creating a cli- mate and providing structure for collaborative learning, dealing with ob- stacles to collaborative learning and helping students to experience, operationalize, and build abstractions.
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School engagement and rights‐respecting schools
TL;DR: The Young Students' Engagement in School Scale was developed and used with 1289 9 to 11-year-olds from 18 schools, six of which had fully implemented the Hampshire Education Authority's Rights Respect and Responsibility (RRR) Initiative as mentioned in this paper.