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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Figuring out where to go to dinner may require some talk, but political decision making is much more difficult, since often one policy decision must ... One could reduce the complexity by not talking it out, just appointing a "decider.
Figuring out where to go to dinner may require some talk, but political decision making is much more difficult, since often one policy decision must ... One could reduce the complexity by not talking it out, just appointing a "decider.
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Speaking Like Citizens: A US Deliberative Tradition At least two general approaches to this question of the public present themselves, face-to-face, and circulatory; people talk to each Other directly, or the read or watch the arguments ...
Speaking Like Citizens: A US Deliberative Tradition At least two general approaches to this question of the public present themselves, face-to-face, and circulatory; people talk to each Other directly, or the read or watch the arguments ...
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Habermas paints a picture mostly comprised of elites talking to elites, in cities and countries that by contemporary standards are fairly small. In the US, merchants, farmers and others, 6 Introduction.
Habermas paints a picture mostly comprised of elites talking to elites, in cities and countries that by contemporary standards are fairly small. In the US, merchants, farmers and others, 6 Introduction.
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A "public sphere” is I'a theater in which political participation is enacted through talk”; it has private people, but public concerns.18 50 something new is created, a group that can "talk back” to the government.
A "public sphere” is I'a theater in which political participation is enacted through talk”; it has private people, but public concerns.18 50 something new is created, a group that can "talk back” to the government.
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Meanwhile, speech teachers were starting to talk to each other. In 1910, the Eastern Public Speaking Conference (called until 1914 by the unwieldy name "The Public Speaking Conference of the New England and North Atlantic States”) ...
Meanwhile, speech teachers were starting to talk to each other. In 1910, the Eastern Public Speaking Conference (called until 1914 by the unwieldy name "The Public Speaking Conference of the New England and North Atlantic States”) ...
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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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