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Research on youth civic engagement often sees the everyday lives of young people as barriers to civic engagement. Recent qualitative approaches have drawn attention to the civic and political dimensions of young people’s everyday lives.... more
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      Democratic EducationPolitical TheoryDemocratic TheoryCivic Education
Current events and citizenship intersect in students' classrooms in ways both problematic and full of potential. Teachers take a range of approaches, from the passive, weekly regurgitation of news stories to the empowered use of current... more
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      Democratic EducationCivic EducationSocial Justice in EducationElementary Education
The purpose of this qualitative, multi-site, multi-case study was to examine how early college high school principals promote the success of the first generation, students of color and low-income students they serve. The study examined... more
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      Democratic EducationSocial JusticeCulturally Responsive Teaching and LearningPrincipals
"Re-imagining 21st century education is ambitious, an ambition born of a sadness as I reflect on a book written 30 years ago. And I shall of course fall far short of the ambition. Just to reiterate again the question raised in the... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesPolitical SociologySocial Change
In this paper I analyze Jason Brennan's book "Against Democracy," and I try to demonstrate that Brennan's argument is not solid.
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      Political PhilosophyDemocratic Education
Actualmente es difícil encontrar alumnos que, en cualquier ámbito y de manera voluntaria y no gratificada, quieran representar colectivos o participar en actividades dentro o fuera de sus centros educativos (ya sea para implicarse en... more
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      Democratic EducationSocial DevelopmentCitizen participation
Teacher education in England now requires that student teachers follow practices that do not undermine " fundamental British values " where these practices are assessed against a set of ethics and behaviour standards. This paper examines... more
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      Democratic EducationCitizenship EducationDemocracy and Citizenship EducationPolitical Education
The Washington Post's recent mea culpa over its participation in the broader media's complicity in the Bush administration's reckless revival of naked imperialism in Iraq belies the fact that investigative journalism in the... more
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      Democratic EducationEducation and Public PolicySocial Justice in EducationDemocracy
The paper offers a robust definition of democracy that focuses upon the decision making processes of democratic societies that are dependent on the ability and willingness of citizens to enter into a democratic dialectic in which informed... more
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      Democratic EducationDemocracyEducating the Educators
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      Social ChangeMedia and Cultural StudiesDemocratic EducationAlternative Education
This article introduces this Special Issue of FORUM with a discussion of freedom and autonomy and considers the ways in which alternative approaches to pedagogy might provide opportunities to address inequalities in the context of... more
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      Democratic EducationAlternative EducationFreedom
The underlying assumption of any educational reform is that we can and should control measurable achievement. The entire scenario builds on a platform of causal determinism, since every effect has a cause, the causes can be tweaked to... more
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      EducationDemocratic EducationPhilosophy of Education
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      SociologyEducational LeadershipDemocratic EducationEducational Administration
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      MetaphysicsEducationDemocratic EducationMetaphysics of Time
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      CartographyEducationDemocratic EducationRadical Geography
The uprising of secondary school students in the state of São Paulo (Brazil) is related to a type of collective action that, although recent, finds support in other anti-neoliberal and anti-capitalist movements, with forms of action and... more
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      Social MovementsDemocratic EducationEducation PolicyUniversity
Aktiveringens politik beskriver och analyserar den omvandling av det svenska politiska landskapet som äger rum under decennierna kring millennieskiftet. Den svenska välfärdsmodellen har genomgått en rad djupgående förändringar. Valfrihet... more
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      Cultural StudiesDemocratic EducationGovernmentalityCultural Theory
Teaching controversial issues in the classroom is now more urgent and fraught than ever as we face up to rising authoritarianism, racial and economic injustice, and looming environmental disaster. Despite evidence that teaching... more
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      Democratic EducationCitizenship EducationTeaching Controversial Issues in HistoryControversial issues
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      Democratic EducationCurriculum StudiesCivic EducationSingapore
Since 1995, the National Department of Education has developed a number of policies to give effect to the proposed transformation outlined in White Paper 1 (Notice 196 of 1995) and in subsequent legislation. A range of Acts and policies... more
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      Democratic EducationSocial Justice in EducationDemocracy and Citizenship EducationStudent Voices and Experiences In Higher Education
In this essay I examine the racial achievement gap in American education in terms of an impaired psychosocial developmental process. I argue that the well-documented academic underperformance of certain minority groups may stem from the... more
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      SociologyEconomic SociologyPolitical SociologySocial Theory
This paper is about educational policy in England. It explores the Coalition Government's key policies about localism, decentralisation and education, and assesses whether these present opportunities for a radical school to apply for... more
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      Democratic EducationAlternative EducationFree Schools
A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing paradox: education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading. This commitment persists... more
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    • Democratic Education
Full Introduction of the Book 
The book's website is www.racialrealitiesbook.com
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      Non Fiction WritingBlack Studies Or African American StudiesDemocratic EducationRacial and Ethnic Politics
"Across Europe there are growing concerns about Islamophobia and far-right and anti-democratic movements. Until Anders Behring Breivik’s July 2011 attacks in which 77 died, Norway’s vulnerability was not perceived as great as that of... more
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      EducationDemocratic EducationTeacher EducationEducation (Social Policy)
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      EducationSociology of EducationDemocratic EducationHuman Rights
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      EducationDemocratic EducationSocial Studies EducationEducational Inequalities (class; race; gender etc)
Desde la sanción de la Ley Nacional de Educación (Ley Nº 26206/06) la enseñanza secundaria reviste carácter obligatorio. Consecuente con el mandato legal, el Ministerio de Educación comenzó a trabajar en pos de producir las condiciones... more
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      Democratic EducationExpansión de la educación superior
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      Democratic EducationPractitioner Action Research
This study examined leadership styles and staff performance in sports organizations. Five hundred and thirty two management staff were purposively selected from five states Sports Councils. The “ Management Staff Response Questionnaire ”... more
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      PsychologySport PsychologyDemocratic EducationEducational Administration
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      Democratic EducationHigh-Stakes Testing, Accountability, Standardized TestingLocal controlEducational Policy
Talking politics online is not exclusively reserved for those spaces dedicated to politics, particularly the everyday political talk crucial to the public sphere. However, past net-based public sphere research has focused mostly on... more
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      Media StudiesNew MediaMedia and Cultural StudiesPolitical Participation
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      Democratic EducationFundamental RightsReligious SymbolsDemocracy and Citizenship Education
The aim of this article is to explore the practical meaning of John Dewey's claim that democracy has to be continuously recreated, by applying it to the preschool context. It takes its starting point in the notion of everyday democracy... more
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      Democratic EducationEarly Childhood EducationWczesna Edukacja
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      Democratic EducationMixed MethodsIntercultural EducationMethodologies of Research
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      Democratic EducationAlternative EducationParental Involvement in EducationDemocratic Schools
RESUMO O objetivo deste trabalho é abordar o papel do coordenador pedagógico para a garantia da participação das crianças pequenas durante a elaboração do Projeto Político Pedagógico (PPP) nos Centros de Educação Infantil. O motivo para... more
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      Democratic EducationEarly Childhood Education
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      Environmental EducationDemocratic EducationSocial Justice in Education
Kapitola se věnuje vztahu mladých lidí ke zpravodajství: jakou pozornost věnují zpravodajským médiím, jakou roli hraje zpravodajství v jejich životě a jak si tuto roli vysvětlovat. V první části jsou blíže představeny studie poukazující... more
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      JournalismDemocratic EducationCivic EducationMedia Literacy
Each of these quotations takes seriously the idea that schools are essential for democracy. Yet Bennett, Freire, Shanker, and Bush each provide their own sense of what democracy requires and how schools can help us to strengthen their... more
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      Democratic EducationService Learning
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      HistorySociologyCultural StudiesGeography
Following the 2005 London bombings, there is widespread public debate about diversity, integration, and multiculturalism in Britain, including the role of education in promoting national identity and citizenship. In response to official... more
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      EducationSociology of EducationDemocratic EducationTerrorism
The discourse of the society of equals emerged at the time of the American, French and Haitian revolutions and since then associated with radical democratic movements. Its core theme of equality as being coextensive with freedom is the... more
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      EducationSpecial EducationDemocratic EducationDemocratic Theory
The democratic school should provide students with rights, such as freedom, justice, equal opportunity, autonomy, participation in the decision making process and build up social and political skills, such as undertaking of... more
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      EducationSociology of EducationDemocratic EducationHistory of Education
Middle-class progressives in the early 20th Century wanted to transform a corrupt and chaotic industrial America into an "authentic" democracy. But they were led astray by their privilege. Focused on enhancing the voices of individuals,... more
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      SociologySocial MovementsSocial TheorySociology of Culture
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      Critical TheoryBusinessEntrepreneurshipOrganizational Behavior
In an era when democracy is claimed to be in crisis, citizens are portrayed as increasingly distrustful of politicians and political institutions, and change, if any, is expected to be coming from extra-institutional spaces, Albert Dzur... more
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      Democratic EducationDemocratic TheoryParticipatory DemocracyPower Sharing
La literatura de la imaginación, al contrario de lo que creería el crítico literario Harold Bloom, comprendía la unidad inseparable, como en el caso de la personalidad de Lincoln, de la conciencia estética y moral, permitiendo que la... more
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      Creative WritingAmerican LiteratureAmerican HistoryCultural Studies
The central question in the political theory of education—How should citizens be educated, and by whom?—has become even more prominent since the first edition of Democratic Education appeared ten years ago. The question has become more... more
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      EducationDemocratic Education
Co-authored with Kim Pinkerton and Pernille Ripp, The Students’ Right to Read provides resources that can be used to help discuss and ensure students’ free access to all texts. The genesis of the Students’ Right to Read was an original... more
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      Democratic EducationRace and RacismChildren's and Young Adult LiteratureCritical Race Theory