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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... Series Editor: Robert E. Denton Jr., Virginia Tech This series encourages focused work examining the role and function of communication in the realm of politics including campaigns and elections, media, and political institutions.
... Series Editor: Robert E. Denton Jr., Virginia Tech This series encourages focused work examining the role and function of communication in the realm of politics including campaigns and elections, media, and political institutions.
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As political institutions seem ever more distant and beyond the reach of reason or understanding, people have again become interested in the potential of participation. This book is about a broad educational and public project starting ...
As political institutions seem ever more distant and beyond the reach of reason or understanding, people have again become interested in the potential of participation. This book is about a broad educational and public project starting ...
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Citizens need a democratic system in order to deliberate mutual choices, either it's democracy in a specific institutional sense or in a more extended sense in which most social life can be democratic or not.
Citizens need a democratic system in order to deliberate mutual choices, either it's democracy in a specific institutional sense or in a more extended sense in which most social life can be democratic or not.
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... The small rural town with fiercely independent farmers who work together to maintain common institutions—from the public schools, to the Grange to the IOOF—captures well the possibility of productively maintaining this tension.
... The small rural town with fiercely independent farmers who work together to maintain common institutions—from the public schools, to the Grange to the IOOF—captures well the possibility of productively maintaining this tension.
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The speech field itself arose from a complex mixture of factors; while it would be easy to dismiss it, as many have done, as just a kind of marginal teaching, both its institutional origins and intellectual engagement with progressive ...
The speech field itself arose from a complex mixture of factors; while it would be easy to dismiss it, as many have done, as just a kind of marginal teaching, both its institutional origins and intellectual engagement with progressive ...
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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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