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Education in Civic Participation: Children, Seniors and the Challenges of an Intergenerational Information and Communications Technology Program
Authors: Gamliel Tova
This article investigates an intergenerational information and communications technology (ICT) program that seeks expressly to enhance children’s civic participation by placing them in mutually educational encounters with seniors. Applying Devine’s model of the interrelationship among structure, power, and agency, it problematizes this goal by analyzing the dialectics of the power relations between seniors and children who maintain a technology-driven relationship. The data were gathered via qualitative participant-observation in two elementary schools.
Published: 2016
Updated: Jun. 01, 2016
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Network for Research in Jewish Education 2016 Conference – Call for Proposals
Authors: NRJE - Network for Research in Jewish Education
The Network for Research in Jewish Education (NRJE) and the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ) are sponsoring a Joint Conference on Jewish Education. It will be held at Towson University in Baltimore on June 14-16, 2016. The conference will feature papers and discussions across the full range of issues in Jewish education, but will also include a significant component on the social scientific study of Jewish education. The program will encompass the academic study of Jewish education, including matters of particular interest to scholars, practitioners, policy makers and philanthropists.
Published: 2015
Updated: Nov. 04, 2015