Educating for Civic Dialogue in an Age of Uncivil Discourse

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Gunn
Keyword(s):  
Civic Dialogue

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KWALON ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cees Grol
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Civic Dialogue ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
Appropriate Education

Story research. Doing justice to the complexity of stories from the field Story research. Doing justice to the complexity of stories from the field The article derives from the author’s thesis Exploring voices exploring appropriate education: practitioners’ discourse and focuses on its methodological part.Cilliers claims that scientific research needs new approaches in order to understand complex issues. Lefebvre and Letiche assert that managers and policymakers simplify the complexity of everyday life in their reorganization proposals from higher levels. Smaling sketches what the role of qualitative research can be in studying complex phenomena. In the article it is explained how story research as a form of narrative research methodology can do justice to the complexity of stories from the field.Boje’s ‘antenarrative’, ‘antinarrative’ and ‘narrative’ form the conceptual framework to search for diversity within and between told and transcribed stories from the field. A ‘paragrammatic’ (Gabriel) use of deconstructive tools may help to find the diversity.Boje’s ‘emplotment’ and Holman Jones’ ‘civic dialogue’ offer clues to present the diversity of everyday life in a way that does justice to the complexity of stories from the field. The form of a polylogue was chosen to represent the different stories from the field.

CIVIL CIVIC DIALOGUE

2005 ◽  
Vol 105 (9) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Bob Swope
Keyword(s):  
Civic Dialogue

The Role of Local Governments in City Branding

2017 ◽  
pp. 251-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emel Gonenc Guler
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Destination Branding ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Civic Dialogue ◽  
The City

Local governments provide a range of local services, preserve the life and liberty of residents, creating space for democratic participation and civic dialogue, supporting market-led and environmentally sustainable local development. City branding supplies the principles for the city developing policy to sustain the local development. In other words, city branding means being powerful to face the increasing wild competition for resources, investment and tourism facilities, both for addressing crucial social issues and cultural variation. The main objective of this study is to highlight the role of local governments and to emphasize the various destinations “bodies” used in the branding process in different administration systems. Although there are many different destination branding strategies over the world, the city branding success cannot be performed without the strong participation of the local governments.

The Role of Local Governments in City Branding

2017 ◽  
pp. 784-803
Author(s):  
Emel Gonenc Guler
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Destination Branding ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Civic Dialogue ◽  
The City

Local governments provide a range of local services, preserve the life and liberty of residents, creating space for democratic participation and civic dialogue, supporting market-led and environmentally sustainable local development. City branding supplies the principles for the city developing policy to sustain the local development. In other words, city branding means being powerful to face the increasing wild competition for resources, investment and tourism facilities, both for addressing crucial social issues and cultural variation. The main objective of this study is to highlight the role of local governments and to emphasize the various destinations “bodies” used in the branding process in different administration systems. Although there are many different destination branding strategies over the world, the city branding success cannot be performed without the strong participation of the local governments.

Decentralizing Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Franco
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Public History ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Community History ◽  
Shared Authority ◽  
Civic Dialogue ◽  
Inner Dialogue ◽  
Historical Resources

This chapter defines community in its broadest sense as shared experience based on ethnicity, racial origins, religion, geography, or other cultural values. It provides examples of public history projects in museums, preservation of historical resources, and oral history that demonstrate how the collaborative nature of community history requires shared authority, dialogue, and participatory management. These projects exemplify best practices for successful community-based history that balance experience with expertise; historical analysis with current-day relevance; and inner dialogue with public discourse. The chapter considers why community history matters as a form of civic dialogue and how emerging technology may impact and challenge public history dialogue in the future.

Social studies without walls: engaging students in online collaboration across district lines

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-269
Author(s):  
Eric B. Freedman ◽  
Lauren Willigan ◽  
Randall Glading ◽  
Kristin N. Rainville
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Past ◽  
Civic Dialogue ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Collaborative Activities

Purpose Intercultural dialogue and collaboration are critical to social studies education. Yet over the past 30 years, schools in the USA have grown increasingly segregated by race and class. The purpose of this paper is to offer a possible response based in digital technology. Design/methodology/approach The authors describe a project called Classes Without Walls that links elementary schools in wealthy suburbs with those in impoverished urban centers. Students at the two schools engage in collaborative activities through online video conferencing. Findings The authors explore two sample lessons in depth: a virtual town tour and a social demographics scavenger hunt. Originality/value Such activities, they argue, can contribute toward cultural understanding and civic dialogue.

Researching Bears Ears: reference practice for civic engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Amy Brunvand
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Citizen Activism ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Reference Librarians ◽  
Civic Dialogue ◽  
Government Planning

Purpose The purpose of this study is to describe practical, generalizable competencies for reference librarians to promote civic engagement and social justice while assisting with politicized queries. Design/methodology/approach Working through an example of tension between land development and protection of an indigenous sacred place illustrates reference strategies that model an ideally inclusive community dialogue. Findings To promote civic engagement, librarians have a role to teach basic civics and to help identify opportunities for public comments and other “leverage points” in a system. An information trail for civic engagement is generated though an interaction between government planning, industry lobbying and citizen activism; it is supported by online and gray literature sources that typically fall outside of typical library collections and databases. A way to grapple with contentious and distorting political claims is to model ideal stakeholder inclusivity, a strategy that also helps to bring marginalized voices into the civic dialogue. Sources from the humanities express cultural and spiritual considerations that are absent from typical political discourse. Research limitations/implications Strategies are based on experience as a staff writer for a community magazine. Practical implications Specific strategies and competencies promote civic engagement during the time period allowed by a typical extended reference dialogue. Social implications An overly sunny view of community problem-solving glosses over some messy realities. To promote civic engagement, librarians must develop competencies to help citizens grapple with marginalization and distorting claims. Originality/value Calls to promote civic engagement and social justice in libraries require librarians to develop new competencies. Working through a case study illustrates specific knowledge and reference practices that support strong democracy.

scholarly journals Teaching about power and empathy in multicultural societies

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-80
Author(s):  
Elizaveta Friesem
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Social System ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Nonviolent Communication ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Civic Dialogue ◽  
University Course

This essay describes the sequence of three activities (from one U.S. university course) that aimed to (1) increase students’ awareness about social injustices, (2) help them develop their empathy to see the complexity of these injustices, and (3) consider ways to change the social system through civic dialogue. The first activity was designed to explore the dynamics of cultural appropriation using principles of media literacy education and the concept of power. The second activity complicated the picture by encouraging students to reflect on the importance of empathy. Students discussed how empathy can substitute blame in conversations about cultural appropriation. The third activity connected empathy to practices of nonviolent communication (developed by Marshall Rosenberg) and Kingian nonviolence. As a result, students were able to discuss how these principles can be applied to cultural appropriation, especially when media technologies are involved.

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