Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American Forum MovementAs Americans worry ever more about the effects of media on the quality of public deliberation, they have developed a renewed interest in public discussion, especially face-to-face public discussion. Over a century ago, public forums_organized and widespread_provided a place where citizens could discuss the political issues of the day, and they became a means of adult civic education. William M. Keith documents the college course developed by the new field of Speech to teach the skills of discussion, as well as the forum movement, which culminated in the Federal Forum Project. Using primary sources from archives around the country, Democracy as Discussion traces the early history of the Speech field, the development of discussion as an alternative to debate, and the Deweyan Progressive philosophy of discussion that swept the U.S. For the first time the structure and details of the Federal Forum project in the context of the forum movement and adult civic education in the U.S. are recounted and analyzed, making this book a valuable resource in the study of political communication and history. |
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Indeed, one perspective on the nature of politics is that it is not (simply) the organized use of force, but that it arises as an alternative to force. The great Roman orator and politician Cicero, who until the nineteenth century was ...
Indeed, one perspective on the nature of politics is that it is not (simply) the organized use of force, but that it arises as an alternative to force. The great Roman orator and politician Cicero, who until the nineteenth century was ...
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How much time will people spend on this?9 How much will the group spend to make the meetings happen, including finding space, speakers, and in the 21“ century, a server on which to keep the Web page? Next, the group will have to worry ...
How much time will people spend on this?9 How much will the group spend to make the meetings happen, including finding space, speakers, and in the 21“ century, a server on which to keep the Web page? Next, the group will have to worry ...
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Habermas goes beyond the coffee shop to document a vibrant print culture from at least the eighteenth century, and this part of his account is amplified in the circulation model developed by Michael Warner, who argues that in a large ...
Habermas goes beyond the coffee shop to document a vibrant print culture from at least the eighteenth century, and this part of his account is amplified in the circulation model developed by Michael Warner, who argues that in a large ...
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Yet as the US grew, in terms of geography and population, through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, the European model broke down; by 1920 the US population was predominantly urban, and cities were huge and increasingly ...
Yet as the US grew, in terms of geography and population, through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, the European model broke down; by 1920 the US population was predominantly urban, and cities were huge and increasingly ...
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... backgrounds or educations.19 Neither the discussion teachers nor the forum organizers of the 1920s and 19305 fully came to grips with the late twentieth century critique of the citizen deliberating in the public sphere.
... backgrounds or educations.19 Neither the discussion teachers nor the forum organizers of the 1920s and 19305 fully came to grips with the late twentieth century critique of the citizen deliberating in the public sphere.
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Teaching Discussion | 113 |
The Forum Movement | 211 |
Conclusion | 331 |
Bibliography | 343 |
Index | 358 |
About the Author | 361 |
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| Վերնագիր | Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American Forum Movement Lexington Studies in Political Communication |
| Հեղինակ | William M. Keith |
| Հրատարակիչ | Lexington Books, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0739154028, 9780739154021 |
| Length | 376 էջ |
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