AED: What is it

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AED What is it?
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Democracy
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Democracy
What are the necessary skills and dispositions
of citizens in a renewing and ever-healthier
democracy?
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Democracy
Agenda for Education in a Democracy
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Emerging from in-depth research of schools and
teacher education in the 1970s and 1980s
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Democracy
Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Teaching of skills and dispositions
(Enculturation)
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Democracy
Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Enculturation
Attention to how we teach - - modeling democratic
dispositions and nurturing each individual child
(Nurturing Pedagogy)
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Democracy
Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Enculturation
Nurturing Pedagogy
Attention to equity and justice - - whose
interests are being served? (Access to Knowledge)
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Democracy
Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Enculturation
Nurturing Pedagogy
Access to Knowledge
Accepting responsibility (Stewardship)
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Democracy
Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Enculturation
Nurturing Pedagogy
Access to Knowledge
Stewardship
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AED Who Does This Work?
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Institute for Educational Inquiry
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Institute for Educational Inquiry
A small non-profit organization whose aim is to
deepen understanding of and support action toward
the AEDs implementation.
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
The National Network for Educational Renewal
Institute for Educational Inquiry
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
The National Network for Educational Renewal
Institute for Educational Inquiry
A national membership network of
school-university partnerships whose shared
mission is to implement the AED.
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
The National Network for Educational Renewal
Institute for Educational Inquiry
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Setting Renewal Sessions Sponsored by the IEI and
the NNER And local settings
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Goals
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• To provide renewal of the concepts for those
  familiar with the AED
• To prepare a cadre of people who can carry out
  these sessions in the future
• To give us feedback to refine the curriculum
• To increase understanding of the AED among those
  new to settings

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Education in a Democracy

• Purpose of schools is to prepare well educated,
  creative, and thughtful citizens who are active,
  critical participants in the civic processes that
  promote our democracy.