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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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Seeing the Light: Mormon Conversion and Deconversion Narratives in Off- and Online Worlds
TL;DR: This paper explored the discourse of heterodox and former Mormons on popular online forums and parallel these with the testimonies of faithful Mormons, and showed how questioning and ex-Mormons use the Internet as their sanctuary, engaging in a ritual of sharing that binds them in a spiritual community, despite their disavowal of faith.
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Research news and Comment: A Pedagogy of Possibility: Reflecting Upon Paulo Freire’s Politics of Education In Memory of Paulo Freire
TL;DR: In this article, Freire proposed a profound respect for the cultural identity of students, a cultural identity that implies respect for language of the other, the color of the others, the gender, the race, the class, the sexual orientation, the intellectual capacity, and the ability to stimulate the creativity of others.
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Business and community: Integrating service learning in Graduate Business Education
TL;DR: For the past five years at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, a community service or service learning component has been included in the Values in Action class (now Values-Based Leadership).
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The Contested Classroom Space: A Decade of Lived Educational Policy in Texas Schools:
TL;DR: In this paper, examples from research studies conducted in Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the United States, are used to demonstrate how the discretionary classroom space where teachers and students actively live curriculum has become increasingly disputed.
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Staking a Claim on Learning: What We Should Know about Learning in Higher Education and Why.
TL;DR: In this paper, an illustrative example captures teaching and learning about the idea of Cartesian doubt in an introductory philosophy class, where students' struggles with this new (and to most, startling) idea in light of their prior knowledge are analyzed.