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Alternative Learning Contexts and the Goals of Democracy in Education
by Deirdre M. Kelly - 2014
This chapter delineates three models of democracy, noting the role that alternative education plays within each model. Then, from the perspective of the participatory democracy model, I examine various initiatives to foster democracy in alternative learning contexts, drawing relevant examples from the literature to highlight critical issues, tensions, and dilemmas, and lessons learned.
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| This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 113. No. 2. |
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- Toward Democratic Discourse: Scaffolding Student-Led Discussions in the Social Studies
- The Communication Requirements of Democratic Schools: Parent-Teacher Perspectives on Their Relationships
- "Advanced" Ideas about Democracy: Toward a Pluralist Conception of Citizen Education
- The Role of the American Research University in Advancing System-Wide Education Reform, Democratic Schooling, and Democracy
- American Democracy, Education, and Utopianism
- Chomsky on Democracy and Education
- Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community and the Public Purpose
- Learning In and Across Contexts: Reimagining Education
- A History of Informal, Out-of-School Education
- "The Local Trap": Problematizing Place, Education, and Policy
- Afterschool: Growth! (The All Stars Way)
- Space-Time Configurations of Youth-Voice Driven Science Practices: Insights Into Local and Global Mobilities
- Creative "Garages" for Community and Economic Youth Development
- Learning Contexts for Children and Young People With Learning Differences
- A Dialogical Inquiry Into Practice Frameworks Within Jabiru Community College: Re-centering Young People and Community Within a Social Constructionist Frame
- Research with a Transformative Activist Agenda: Creating the Future Through Education for Social Change
- The Role of Mathematics in Education for Democracy
- The Students are Listening: Elementary Education’s Responsibility to Young Citizens Beyond the Rituals of Democratic Citizenship
- Love Trumps Fear: The Need to Refocus Our Educational Policies
- Knowing What’s Local: Ethnographic Inquiry, Education, and Democracy
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- Deirdre Kelly
University of British Columbia
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DEIRDRE M. KELLY is Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. She has written, co-authored, and co-edited seven books, the most recent of which is “Girl Power”: Girls Reinventing Girlhood (with Dawn Currie & Shauna Pomerantz, 2009). Her research interests include teaching for social justice and democracy, gender and youth studies, critical policy studies, and critical media education using popular culture. Kelly’s most recent work has been published in journals such as Equity and Excellence in Education and Studies in Philosophy and Education.
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