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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Suppose a group of concerned citizens wanted to form an organization to enhance local democratic participation and practice. What are their obstacles? First, obviously, is the scale of the modern US. Should they work at the block level?
Suppose a group of concerned citizens wanted to form an organization to enhance local democratic participation and practice. What are their obstacles? First, obviously, is the scale of the modern US. Should they work at the block level?
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... articles, documentaries, blogs, videos, etc., circulate through society carrying arguments and ideas. For Warner, a public is a self-organized entity which encompasses Habermas' bourgeois public sphere, and potentially much more.
... articles, documentaries, blogs, videos, etc., circulate through society carrying arguments and ideas. For Warner, a public is a self-organized entity which encompasses Habermas' bourgeois public sphere, and potentially much more.
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... without the forum movement, there would have been little purpose in teaching discussion skills, and as discussion pedagogy faded, the skills rapidly became contextualized as the group dynamics of organizational decision making.
... without the forum movement, there would have been little purpose in teaching discussion skills, and as discussion pedagogy faded, the skills rapidly became contextualized as the group dynamics of organizational decision making.
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Kimball traces the history of liberal education as a continuing battle between a vision of education organized around its civic functions (the rhetorical or oratorical model) and a contemplative vision of education, organized around its ...
Kimball traces the history of liberal education as a continuing battle between a vision of education organized around its civic functions (the rhetorical or oratorical model) and a contemplative vision of education, organized around its ...
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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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