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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Of course, to my wife and best friend, Kari, I owe the greatest debt of all: she not only put up with my many absences, intensive writing and obsessive musing, but she helped this project mature on every level.
Of course, to my wife and best friend, Kari, I owe the greatest debt of all: she not only put up with my many absences, intensive writing and obsessive musing, but she helped this project mature on every level.
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In 1910 these forms were alive and lively, and had even become competitive sports in colleges.30 Yet doubts about their appropriateness to new visions of democratic politics persisted, and in the 1920s, a new course began to emerge in ...
In 1910 these forms were alive and lively, and had even become competitive sports in colleges.30 Yet doubts about their appropriateness to new visions of democratic politics persisted, and in the 1920s, a new course began to emerge in ...
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In addition, John Mason Brown, from Fresno State University, was a federal forum leader and trainer for the Forum Project (see FFP, Series 189, Box 2, File: "Forum Leadership Course," NARA) as well as publishing in the Quarterly Journal ...
In addition, John Mason Brown, from Fresno State University, was a federal forum leader and trainer for the Forum Project (see FFP, Series 189, Box 2, File: "Forum Leadership Course," NARA) as well as publishing in the Quarterly Journal ...
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as if it made sense to ask what their public speaking course, or writing course, was like. Yet change had been extensive enough that the question almost doesn't make sense. Rhetoric was not a "subject" in the eighteenth century ...
as if it made sense to ask what their public speaking course, or writing course, was like. Yet change had been extensive enough that the question almost doesn't make sense. Rhetoric was not a "subject" in the eighteenth century ...
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... the belles lettres interest in the development of taste rather than virtue. Elocution, or delivery, became a performance art that could be studied separately. Of course, changes were not so clear—cut; they Origins of Speech Pedagogy 23.
... the belles lettres interest in the development of taste rather than virtue. Elocution, or delivery, became a performance art that could be studied separately. Of course, changes were not so clear—cut; they Origins of Speech Pedagogy 23.
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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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