Democratic Education
Harmonization of the Educational Sub Systems of Cameroon: A Multicultural Perspective for Democratic Education
... Secondly, the process of harmonizing the educational sub-systems in Cameroon has been misconstrued. This process has been conceived as assimilation (Fonkeng, 2007: p. 299). By assimilation, one refers to the process of ...
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The Challenges of Gaming for Democratic Education: The Case of iCivics
... designed to get the players to learn the concept and apply them. These concepts are aligned with state academic standards. For example, in People’s Pie, the focus is on introducing concepts from economics, particularly ...
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A Problem of Play for Democratic Education? Abstraction, Realism, and Exploration in Learning Games. A Response to "The Challenges of Gaming for Democratic Education: The Case of iCivics"
... for democratic education because they can: (a) offer simplified, but often not simple, outlines (later called “models”) of complex social systems that generate further inquiry; (b) provide practice spaces ...
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Challenging Freedom: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democratic Education
... The success of the neoliberal conception of freedom is partially due to the internal consistency of its specific meaning of freedom with three core assumptions operating powerfully in the background of the modern Western ...
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Counter-radicalization policies - a threat to the principles of democratic education?: A German case-study
... The current autonomy of the educational field in Germany gives teachers freedoms that allow the principles of democratic education, which are currently incorporated into school- curricula, to be upheld. A ...
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South Africa’s Quest for Democratic Education through a Language in Education Policy Perspective
... of education and discusses how the LiEP was adopted in the South African context to help develop elements of democracy in ...on democratic education, which is examined in the next section of this ...
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Going Beyond the Games with iCivics. A Response to “The Challenges of Gaming for Democratic Education: The Case of iCivics”
... iCivics games alone certainly cannot teach students to be critically minded, active citizens. However, programs like iCivics, especially when effectively mediated by teachers, can create new social and cultural virtual ...
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Neoliberal Ideology and Democratic Learning. A Response to "Challenging Freedom: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democratic Education"
... of Democratic Education,” the author sug- gests that the presumed decline of democratic learning in public schooling follows from two primary forces: (a) the metaphysical implications of Cartesian ...
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The Common Core and Democratic Education: Examining Potential Costs and Benefits to Public and Private Autonomy
... a democratic society and the role of education in promoting democracy processes and democratic values” (2013b, ...to democratic participation, Singer implied that citizens miss out on ...
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What is democratic education?, David R. Hiley
... a democratic disposition needs to be skep- tical—not its cynical version, the version fostered by world-weary editorialists and investigative reporters, nor an indifferent skepticism which doubts equally ev- ery ...
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Democratic Education through the Eyes of the Poor: Appraising the Post Apartheid Experience
... post-apartheid education was formulated with direct links to the Constitution of the ...our democratic rights, and shape our destiny, by giving us the tools to participate in public life, to think ...
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Democratic Education in the Deweyan Perspective and the Challenges of African Development
... formal education as a tool for political ...of education varies from one country to ...promoting education for democratic governance as we experience slow pace of educational development due ...
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Media Literacy as Mindful Practice for Democratic Education. A Response to “Transaction Circles with Digital Texts as a Foundation for Democratic Practices”
... and democratic literacy ...literacy education (MLE) that serves to enhance Brown’s argument for using transaction circles in order to promote democratic discourse, specifically augmenting her ideas ...
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From ‘Prevent’ to ‘Enable’ Reclaiming Radical Thinking Spaces Through Democratic Education
... students have continued to explore the issues in a variety of online spaces – thoughts emerging and crystallising through rhizomatic connections. A Yammer social networking platform used by the trainee teachers has been ...
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The Need for Media Education in Democratic Education
... media education should emphasize critical literacy and the use of media to engage in authentic learning experiences with others, construct knowledge, and communicate effectively (Buckingham, 2000; Gee, 2013; ...
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The Social and Emotional Components of Gaming. A Response to “The Challenge of Gaming for Democratic Education”
... Qualitative studies of networked gameplay have suggested that games can provide similar opportunities. Wohn, Lampe, Wash, Ellison, and Vitak’s (2011) interviews with players of Facebook games (like Mafia Wars and ...
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Assessment, technology and democratic education in the age of data
... replaces democratic accountability with managerial and technocratic one, thus reducing the possibility of building responsibility around social goals and democratic processes (Ozga, ...
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Student Engagement and Democratic Justice in Education: For One and for All?
... building democratic participation into the relationships, structures, teaching, learning, and assessments within schools (Fielding, 2007; Knight and Pearl, 2000; Rudduck and Flutter, 2000; Slee, ...rights-based ...
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Education and Zambia’s Democratic Development: Reconstituting “Something” From the Predatory Project of Neoliberal Globalization
... rights education, which instead of training people to serve the interests of globalization, would educate them to advance their lives and the lives of their ...rights education, we discuss the important ...
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Democratic and learning-oriented assessment practices. in Early Childhood Care and Education in New Zealand
... and a diversity of ideas (Gresalfi, 2009). The curriculum responded to this ‘uncertainty’ by describing learning outcomes as working theories and learning dispositions (Ministry of Education, 1996, p. 44). Working ...
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