Sentences with phrase «democratic education»

Celebrating the potential of young people and the power of democratic education also means acknowledging and understanding the different ways that our society falls short.

We are now in a position to discuss the place of recreation in democratic education.

This paper suggests that educational technology can, in fact, facilitate two of the three elements in the multicultural democratic education framework: critical pedagogy and thorough disciplinary content.

How can goals for democracy and for democratic education in the domain of human creativity be formulated?

Democratic education reformers should act accordingly and prepare to lose some «friends» in the process.

The study used this multicultural democratic education framework to analyze one teacher's pedagogy.

What happens when Democratic education advocates on opposite sides of many policy issues attend the same campaign training events?

Yes there is, the most democratic education reform you can have is to give people the education money and let them decide how to use it.

Does democratic education have a future, or must we find other patterns by which to direct the course of learning?

In fact, our public schools seem to have much to learn from private, especially Catholic, schools about what makes democratic education work.

Education in a democracy of worth is opposed to much so - called democratic education of the progressive, child - centered variety.

I was thinking about an education - related media venture: educational documentary production company, a publishing house, an educational marketing company — all meant to promote the values behind democratic education.

I think that far too many people look at democratic education as the ideal and forget that high - quality education should be the goal.

For the purposes of this paper, the data are analyzed specifically to examine his incorporation of educational technology in his multicultural democratic education pedagogy.

This movement does little to foster the kinds of classroom activities, decisions, and judgments that we envision for democratic education.

In groups, students then drew their visions of democratic education.

The political classroom: Evidence and ethics in democratic education.

Further exploring these practices, this section discusses his attempts to incorporate educational technology into his pedagogical efforts at multicultural democratic education.

In 2000, however, George W. Bush and congressional Republicans structurally changed the education debate, as decades of Democratic education policies ran up against reality.

His practice illuminated how to implement multicultural democratic education with educational technology, especially in underresourced schools.

Scott is an advocate for progressive education and has presented at numerous conferences including the Alternative Learning Network Conference, Alternative Education Resource Organization Conference, and International Democratic Education Conference.

Jerry was the first executive director of the National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools (NCACS), and was a founding member of the International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC).

A belief in educator agency and critical examination is at the center of my working group, focusing on progressive democratic education practices within the standardization movement.

When it comes to progress in New Orleans and Louisiana, there's so much to celebrate - not least of which is a new crop of Democratic education champions taking office at all levels throughout the state.

Will the war against terrorism permanently deflect America's resources from democratic education reform?

Challenging draft - platform language, as progressive groups across the spectrum did (including teachers unions that objected to the initial language of the drafting committee), doesn't make us any less of progressive Democratic education champions.

JOTIA, A 2011, Educating for Democratic Engagement in Botswana's Democracy: Challenges of Promoting Democratic Education, Journal Of Social Development In Africa, 26, 1, pp. 135 - 160.

Wednesday, April 23, 7 — 8 pm: Good Morning Mission Hill film screening at Francis Parker School, 330 W Webster, followed by a panel discussion on democratic education.

We base our conversations on the themes and values of the Mission Hill School in Boston; educators can create cracks in the education system to implement democratic education practices, including building community and assessing students authentically (Mission Hill School, n.d.).

In such democratic education the learner's desires are relevant only insofar as they reveal the nature and extent of the transmutation that must be effected through teaching and learning.

Whether it's Waiting for «Superman» and other recent films, Oprah, NBC's Education Nation, the L.A. Times's publication of individual teacher data (and signs that something similar will soon happen in New York), or the emergence of a cadre of bona fide Democratic education reformers, tremors can be felt.

It was a typical Democratic education speech, with vows of support for early childhood education, for building up programs that help students from «the day they're born until the day they graduate from college.»

«Making Democratic Education Work.»

South African educators recently initiated a collaboration with Facing History and Ourselves staff to create a new democratic education curriculum.

Even Capitol Hill's Democratic education kingpin, House Education and Labor Committee Chair George Miller, is now taking shots at the administration.

All of this has pushed even Andy Rotherham, my good friend and an influential Democratic education policy operative, to concede substantial problems with the once - heralded RTT program.

He is Co-director (with Dr Paul Carr) of the Global Doing Democracy Research Project, an international project examining perspectives and perceptions of democracy in education to develop a robust and critical democratic education with over 60 researchers in 20 countries.

So while it's tempting to frame the fight in New York as a perilous fight between Democratic education reformers and «the de Blasio wing» of the party, public charter schools are just too local to drive a national political conversation — let alone a serious civil war within the Democratic party.

Others have explored how technology tools can be used to encourage democratic education (Hostetler, 2012), critical thinking and problem solving (Fitchett & Good, 2012; Ray, Faure, & Kelle, 2013) and support student exploration, inquiry and publishing (Gentry, 2008; Kulla - Abbott & Polman, 2008; Journell, 2009; Schneidermann, 2008).

Stay tuned for next week's Capitol Connection, which will provide an overview of the 2012 Democratic education platform.

This paper also encourages educators to proceed with caution in incorporating educational technology to promote multicultural democratic education given the continued existence of the «digital divide» and underresourced schools.

The IDEC spawns the European Democratic Education Community which has its first gathering.

Michael Fielding was a teacher for more than two decades, focused on practicing radical democratic education.

Taking the Brookings Institution's recommendations for a web site with individual schools graded for their willingness to entertain parent / student choice of schools one step further, I suggest also including indexes of the ability of students to choose or design their own curriculum; i.e. democratic education.

Multicultural democratic education begins in the classroom because, as Cuban (1984) stated, true long - lasting educational reform must start in the classroom.

This section maps the multicultural democratic education lens onto Mr. Sinclair's teaching described earlier, along with additional data obtained from interviews and other artifacts.

Duncan, who stands at a lean 6» 5», defined himself early in his tenure as a persistent yet compromising free - marketer, part of an education reform movement that stresses the use of data and competition to improve schools — a departure from traditional Democratic education policy, which unquestionably supported teachers unions.

This article evaluates the tensions with democratic education inherent in the federal School Improvement Grant program's market - based school reforms.

Her approach is informed by studies in social justice and democratic education at Pacific Oaks College, as well as two decades of training in yoga.