Buchanan, Christy.

The Long-Term Impact of Learning to Deliberate. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (93 pages)

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Millennials, Politics, and Deliberation -- Measuring the Impact of Deliberation -- The Democracy Fellows: Recollections and Connections -- Citizenship Defined -- The Effects of Deliberative Dialogue on Cognitive Complexity -- Citizenship Practiced -- Politics Reassessed -- Educating for Citizenship -- Analysis of the Survey Data -- Implications for Higher Education -- References -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: The Interview Instrument -- Appendix C: The Survey Instrument.

This report is a follow-up to Harriger and McMillan's Speaking of Politics: Preparing College Students for Democratic Citizenship through Deliberative Dialogue (Kettering Foundation Press, 2007). That book described a four-year study at Wake Forest University in which students, called Democracy Fellows, were exposed to the process of deliberative dialogue both inside and outside of the classroom.

9781945577055


Political science--Case studies.


Electronic books.

JA71.L664 2016

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