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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... and is currently the National Communication Association. However, I will generally use the term "speech" when discussing an era in which that was the ordinary term. 30 See Chapter 2 on the history of intercollegiate debate.
... and is currently the National Communication Association. However, I will generally use the term "speech" when discussing an era in which that was the ordinary term. 30 See Chapter 2 on the history of intercollegiate debate.
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The meaning of debate and the political implications of speech teaching would surely be central to any account of the ... participants were women, the forums were on the cutting edge of racial integration, women became intercollegiate ...
The meaning of debate and the political implications of speech teaching would surely be central to any account of the ... participants were women, the forums were on the cutting edge of racial integration, women became intercollegiate ...
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As we'll see, it grew out of debates about competitive intercollegiate debating. For those debates to take place, however, there had to be departments that taught the relevant coursework. Many of the core departments of the modern US ...
As we'll see, it grew out of debates about competitive intercollegiate debating. For those debates to take place, however, there had to be departments that taught the relevant coursework. Many of the core departments of the modern US ...
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... and in general examinations through the 1870s.20 They were not only increasingly marginalized, but did not receive any particularly theoretical concern until the rise of intercollegiate debate (covered in the next chap— ter).
... and in general examinations through the 1870s.20 They were not only increasingly marginalized, but did not receive any particularly theoretical concern until the rise of intercollegiate debate (covered in the next chap— ter).
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Even though speech teachers might be acquainted through intercollegiate debate (increasingly coached by faculty), the system was quite different from the modern system of tournaments, and they would not have had the same amount of ...
Even though speech teachers might be acquainted through intercollegiate debate (increasingly coached by faculty), the system was quite different from the modern system of tournaments, and they would not have had the same amount of ...
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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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