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Zhang, Jianwei – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2010
Many reform initiatives adopt a reductionist, proceduralized approach to cultural change, assuming that deep changes can be realized by introducing new classroom activities, textbooks, and technological tools. This article elaborates a complex system perspective of learning culture: A learning culture as a complex system involves macro-level…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Social Values, Epistemology, Systems Approach
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Milstein, Diana – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
In this article, I discuss children's habitually underestimated agency capabilities in school life, including their potential as political subjects. Here, I present a description and analysis of an episode that took place in 2004, at a primary school located in a working class neighbourhood of Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. On this occasion, a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Politics of Education
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Houser, Neil O. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1996
Examines the inherent dichotomy between the competing needs of maintaining emotional safety and exploring sensitive issues in social studies classrooms. Argues that an effectively safe classroom can serve as a necessary backdrop for addressing controversial issues even in the earliest of grades. Maintains that most teachers simply ignore these…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Dissonance, Controversial Issues (Course Content)