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Dewey’s Contribution to Giovanni Maria Bertin’s Ethical and Social Education

Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica, 2022
The aim of this essay is to present an analysis of Dewey’s contribution to Giovanni Maria Bertin’s Ethical and Social Education. In it, the author intends to demonstrate that, on the basis of several of Bertin’s works, a possible comparison can be made ...
Manuela Gallerani
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The ‘Competence’ discourse in education and the struggle or social agency and critical citizenship [PDF]

, 2009
This paper argues for an education for critical citizenship closely connected with a revitalisation of the democratic public sphere and which prepares citizens to contribute to the emergence of a ‘substantive democracy’ (Giroux, 2001). An education for
Mayo, Peter
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Ten myths about character, virtue and virtue education – plus three well-founded misgivings [PDF]

, 2013
Initiatives to cultivate character and virtue in moral education at school continue to provoke sceptical responses. Most of those echo familiar misgivings about the notions of character, virtue and education in virtue – as unclear, redundant, old ...
Allport G. W., Aristotle, Arthur J., Carr D., Haldane J., Kristján Kristjánsson, Kristjánsson K., Kristjánsson K., MacIntyre A., Nussbaum M. C., Nussbaum M. C., Peters R. S., Peterson C., Wiley L. S., Yu J.   +14 more
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
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Democratic and Inclusive Education in Iceland: Transgression and the Medical Gaze

Nordic Journal of Social Research, 2016
‘Inclusive education’ and ‘democracy’ are more than buzzwords in education. They refer to official educational policy in much of the western world. Democracy as a school policy seems to be widely accepted while inclusive education is more controversial ...
Ólafur Páll Jónsson
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Learning from sustainable development: education in the light of public issues [PDF]

, 2012
Education for sustainable development (ESD) is increasingly affecting environmental education policy and practice. In this article we show how sustainable development is mainly seen as a problem that can be tackled by applying the proper learning ...
Bauman Z., Biesta G., Biesta G., Biesta G., Dewey J., González-Gaudiano É., Gough S., Huckle J., Huckle J., Huckle J., Jickling B., Joke Vandenabeele, Katrien Van Poeck, Latour B., Mouffe C., Mouffe C., Rancière J., Rancière J., Rancière J., Sauvé L., Sauvé L., Scott W., Smyth J., Todd S., United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Wildemeersch D., World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)   +26 more
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
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Journalism Education: Missing the Democratic Connections [PDF]

, 2003
Numerous studies examine public journalism efforts through the practitioner's lens, but scholars, for the most part, have ignored an important aspect of the journalism reform movement -- how journalism educators teach public journalism. David Kurpius, an
David Kurpius
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Youth Political Engagement and Democratic Culture in Republican Nepal [PDF]

, 2020
Nepal’s transformation from an autocratic monarchy to a democratic republic presupposes the development of democratic institutions, and the current generation of Nepali youth, particularly those in higher education, are uniquely situated in that process.
Maharjan, Nabin, O\u27Neill, Tom, Poudel, Bijaya Raj   +2 more
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen, Leon Englberger, Jens Rommel   +2 more
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