Democratic practices as learning opportunities /

Democratic practices as learning opportunities / / edited by Ruud van der Veen [and three others].

Education and learning for democracy take place in a wide variety of contexts worldwide. Traditionally, children are prepared to become responsible citizens in families and schools. In non-formal settings and in their lived experience, adults engage in democratic practices. Some people are active me...

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Veen, Ruud van der,
Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Ruud van der Veen , Danny Wildemeersch , Janet Youngblood and Victoria Marsick
  • Introduction / Ruud van der Veen , Danny Wildemeersch , Janet Youngblood and Victoria Marsick
  • Foundations of democratic education: Kant, Dewey, and Arendt / Gert Biesta
  • Relocating social learning as a democratic practice / Danny Wildemeersch and Joke Vandenabeele
  • A model for the support of active citizens / Ruud van der Veen
  • The adult educator as a boundary worker / Joke Vandenabeele
  • Democracy and representation in the US / Janet W. Youngblood
  • Learning opportunities for active members of nonprofit organizations in Japan / Kazuho Tsuchiya
  • Who learns what in participatory democracy? / Josh Lerner and Daniel Schugurensky
  • Developing a citizen education program for Pakistan: Drawing on progressive interpretations of concepts in the Islamic tradition / Bernadette L. Dean
  • The struggle for a new collective and democratic identity in post-communist Europe / Agnieszka Bron
  • Learning opportunities in community services in Flanders / Carmen Mathijssen and Danny Wildemeersch
  • Precarious public interventions / Marcel Spierts
  • Learning to organize / Ellen Scully-Russ
  • Dealing with difference on the shop floor / Nathalie Schippers and Danny Wildemeersch
  • Participation and expression: Democratic practices in a Sierra Leone tile company / Julia Sloan
  • About the authors / Ruud van der Veen , Danny Wildemeersch , Janet Youngblood and Victoria Marsick
  • Index / Ruud van der Veen , Danny Wildemeersch , Janet Youngblood and Victoria Marsick.

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