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Education, Ethics, and the Law: Examining the Legal Consequences of Unethical Judgment
The authors examine the relationship between ethics, law, and policy with the intent of distinguishing between as well as denoting the intersection of ethics, law, and policy as situated in education. Distingu...
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Transforming the Space of Schools into Learning Communities: Teacher Leadership as Pedagogy of Democratic Place
Democracy does not just happen. It is constructed through experiences shared by all members of a community committed to transforming social space into a performative space that is defined by democratic ideas. ...
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Dialogue and Designing Our Future: Conversation as Culture Creating and Consciousness Evolving
In this chapter, first, we begin with an exploration of the meaning of dialogue. Then, we examine the relationship of conversation to culture creating and consciousness evolving within society. Dialogue is int...
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The Power Of Dialogue In Social Systems
The primary challenge to global society, as we pass the threshold of a new millennium, is to transform existing social systems, and therefore American society, in such ways as to embody a more inclusive, democ...
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Creating our Shared Future Reflections on Conscious Evolution of Society
In this closing chapter, first, I briefly review the purpose of this work and highlight the learning experience offered in the chapters of this compendium. Then, I explore evolutionary systems as future creati...
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Design Conversation: Future Building and Consciousness Evolving
In this opening chapter, first, I review the purpose of this Compendium and provide an overview of the learning journey presented by the editors and authors. The chapter is presented in two parts. Part I begins w...
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Conversation as an Activity System: The Mediational Role of Discourse in Systems Design
Systems design as Banathy (1996, 2000) explains, is largely communicative in nature, and depends on design and dialogical discourse as semiotic tools for mediation within the cognitive, cultural, and creative ...
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Creating Public Spaces and Practiced Places for Democracy, Discourse, and the Emergence of Civil Society
A question before us in the process of creating public spaces and practiced places for democracy and civil society concerns what democracy means for civil society and what civil society means for democratizati...
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Guest Editorial: Understanding the Complexity of Democratic Civil Society
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Book Reviews
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Dialogue in Socio-Cultural Evolution
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Dialogue
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Conversation and the Development of Learning Communities
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Guest Editorial: Festschrift: The Lifework of a Systems Scholar—Essays in Honor of Bela H. Banathy
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A Biography of Bela H. Banathy: A Systems Scholar
This article reflects a biographical account of Bela H. Banathy's life, providing a recorded history of his accomplishments, personally and professionally. Professor Banathy made significant contributions to s...
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The Pragmatics of Educational Systems Design: A Critical Examination
The author critically examines educational systems design (ESD) through the lens of pragmatism. Examining ESD through a lens of pragmatism draws to the foreground issues related to Banathy's (1991, 1996, 2001)...
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An expedition for change: Facilitating the systemic change process in school districts