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This work argues that colleges and universities are important locations for building students' capacities for civic participation. Grounded in literature and personal experience, the authors advance pedagogical strategies that promote civic responsibility and prepare students to navigate today's polarized political landscape.
List of contents
Introduction: Pedagogical Strategies for Educating Emerging Citizens in a Polarized Era
Angela M. McGowan-Kirsch
Chapter 1: Dismantling Polarization through Dialogic and Deliberative Pedagogies
Laura W. Black & Carson S. Kay
Chapter 2: A "Practice Field" for Democracy: Harnessing the Potential of Sports to Promote Democratic Deliberation in the College Classroom
Rebecca A. Alt
Chapter 3: Promoting Democracy: Civic Education in an Era of Anti-Democratic Unrest
Kevin R. Meyer & Stephen K. Hunt
Chapter 4: "The Civil Dialogues Were Dope": Civil Dialogue® as A Tool for Engaging Students in Difficult Conversations in the Classroom
Katrina N. Hanna, Robert J. Razzante, & Jennifer A. Linde
Chapter 5: An Interdisciplinary Civics Approach: Teaching the Social Contract and Lived Civics
Ben Epstein, Molly W. Andolina, and Kristen Pengelly
Chapter 6: Reframe Political Talk as Discursive Civic Engagement
Pamela Conners, Sara A. Mehltretter Drury, Amanda Nienow, Laura Wysocki, Katherine Knobloch, & Reni Joseph
Chapter 7: Integrating Interpersonal Communication and Rhetorical Studies in a Course Highlighting Deliberative Democracy
Sherry G. Ford & Sally Bennett Hardig
Chapter 8: Public Discourse: Civic Action as Training for Democratic Engagement
Sarah Wolter & Hagar Attia
Chapter 9: Preserving the Liberal Public Sphere through AI Engagement
Heather Walters
Chapter 10: Looking for Difference: Using Declamation and Controversial Images to Frame Civic Engagement
Adam J. Gaffey
Chapter 11: Finding Common Ground: How Two Divergent Colleges Converged Around Conversation
Tim Muehlhoff & Michael Y. Ahn
Chapter 12: How to Have Difficult Conversations: Using Deliberation to Promote Students' Democratic Decision-Making
James Proszek, Chris Anderson, Brian A. Long, Augustus Isaac, & Corydon Taylor
Chapter 13: Preparing to Have Campus Conversations: Infusing Deliberative Pedagogy with an Ethic of Dialogue
Jennifer L. Borda & Renee Guarriello Heath
Conclusion: Final Thoughts and Future Actions
Angela M. McGowan-Kirsch
About the author
Angela M. McGowan-Kirsch is associate professor of communication at The State University of New York at Fredonia.
