Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American Forum MovementLexington Books, 12 փտվ, 2007 թ. - 376 էջ As 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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... democratic process , and they are again today . In a striking parallel to developments in the Progressive era , both in academia and at the grass roots people are struggling to reinvent participatory democracy . As politi- cal ...
... democratic process , and they are again today . In a striking parallel to developments in the Progressive era , both in academia and at the grass roots people are struggling to reinvent participatory democracy . As politi- cal ...
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... democracy as well . We certainly do value our democratic ideals , but humans are fallible , and so is their decision making . John Dewey saw human thought and life as a continuous process of making choices to solve problems , whether ...
... democracy as well . We certainly do value our democratic ideals , but humans are fallible , and so is their decision making . John Dewey saw human thought and life as a continuous process of making choices to solve problems , whether ...
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... democratic life and prac- tice.5 After all , there are many versions of rhetoric ; the question should be which will advance our common causes and which will not . In fact , trying to discover " good rhetoric " as a remedy for “ bad ...
... democratic life and prac- tice.5 After all , there are many versions of rhetoric ; the question should be which will advance our common causes and which will not . In fact , trying to discover " good rhetoric " as a remedy for “ bad ...
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... democracy.12 All three topics are mutually interdependent . For a democracy to be delibera- tive , it needs citizens . Citizens need a democratic system in order to delib- erate mutual choices , either it's democracy in a specific ...
... democracy.12 All three topics are mutually interdependent . For a democracy to be delibera- tive , it needs citizens . Citizens need a democratic system in order to delib- erate mutual choices , either it's democracy in a specific ...
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... democracy . Yet as the US grew , in terms of geography and population , through the nineteenth and into the twen ... democratic principles and practices . Being Citizens A crucial ambiguity remains in this picture of Introduction 7.
... democracy . Yet as the US grew , in terms of geography and population , through the nineteenth and into the twen ... democratic principles and practices . Being Citizens A crucial ambiguity remains in this picture of Introduction 7.
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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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