What is the future of schools and what is the role of ICT in this future? To some of us, ICTs are emblematic of contemporary discussions about educational reform; their incorporation into education offers significant improvement to the overall quality of education our children receive. For others, this improvement cannot be realised under current educational conditions. For the liberating, dyna...

Social condition is commonly the result of circumstances, sometimes of laws, oftener still of these two causes united; but when once established, it may justly be considered as itself the source of almost all the laws, the usages, and the ideas which regulate the conduct of nations: whatever it does not produce, it modifies. If we would become acquainted with the legislation and the manners of ...

Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence edited by Megan Boler is a philosophical inquiry into the merits of fostering democratic dialogue in the college classroom through the selective silencing and voicing of student participants. The contributors offer creative and sometimes conflicting perspectives on the use of dialogue in the classroom; however, all are criti...

Due to the values, including equality and equity, solidarity, social responsibility, and caring for others, upon which they are based and principles that they embody voluntary and open membership, democratic member control, member economic participation, member education, and concern for the community their very mandate places cooperatives in a unique position to ensure and promote gender equal...

After independence in 1991, Uzbekistan became the master of its own way of economic and social development and had the task to construct a democratic state and open civil society, a socially-oriented market economy. All this entailed a radical reform of the education system in Uzbekistan. Education had to be reoriented towards meeting the common national interest and ensuring competitiveness in...

Democratic Values -.07 (-1.77) -.04 (-1.06) Authoritarianism .04 (.91) .06 (1.47) Socio-Political (Control) Variables Education level -.16*** (-4.21) .01 (.34) Income in comparison to average -.03 (-.84) -.02 (-.48) Political orientation -.10* (-2.21) -.11** (-2.61) Religiosity -.01 (-.11) .10* (2.55) R (Adjusted) .54 (.53) .32 (.31) *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001. 115 Hatred as an Emotional ...

This article provides a close reading of Democracy and Education, situated in the context of Dewey’s work prior to and during World War I, to illuminate the close tie between Dewey’s overriding concerns during this period and today’s educational concerns. The analysis suggests two projects for contemporary democratic educators.

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*Corresponding author: Fethi Benbelaïd, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences of Nature, Life, Earth and Universe, Aboubekr Belkaïd University of Tlemcen, PO Box 119, 13000 Tlemcen, Algeria. Tel: +213799490817 E-mail: [email protected] Foundation Project: Supported by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria (Grant No. B05/N...

The Opinionnaire on Political Inttitutions and Participation (OPIP) was designed to measure six dimensions of the overall construct of politica/ attitude. Three studies were undertaken to determine the va/idity and reliability of the instrument, and the OPIP was found to be a valid and reliable instrument for research and evaluations using multi-subject designs. Validation and cross-validation ...