Talking it out, deliberative dialogue in higher education: Compact Nation Podcast

I had the opportunity to be interviewed about my teaching and research with colleagues at Campus Compact as part of #CompactNationPod. Listen below.

Talking it out, deliberative dialogue in higher education

 In our eighth episode of the second season, Co-Hosts Emily Shields and Andrew Seligsohn sat down with author and scholar Timothy Shaffer about his work and research in deliberative dialogue, including his new book “Deliberative Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning for Democratic Engagement.” We discussed what it really takes to embed dialogue in campus and community work and some ideas for making it more effective. We also took a detour from the usual pop culture conversation to review Thanksgiving traditions, including Andrew’s recipe for turkey that doesn’t suck. Listen now and weigh in online using #CompactNationPod.
 

New issue of Journal of Public Deliberation

***Just released!***

This issue features state of the art research on deliberative democracy and public participation in a variety of global contexts. Several articles offer advances in research methods, including John Gastil and colleagues’ assessment of the efficacy of using Participedia as a research tool, and Jaramillo and colleagues’ call for more transparency and data sharing in deliberative research. Research in this issue includes studies of participatory budgeting, stakeholder workshops, focus groups, and youth dialogues in public and university settings. The issue also includes practice-based Reflections from the Field and two book reviews that are likely to be of interest to scholars and practitioners in deliberation and public engagement.

Journal of Public Deliberation,  Volume 13, Issue 2 (Fall 2017)

https://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/ 

Table of Contents

Articles

Testing Assumptions in Deliberative Democratic Design: A Preliminary Assessment of the Efficacy of the Participedia Data Archive as an Analytic Tool

John Gastil, Robert C. Richards Jr., Matt Ryan, and Graham Smith

Prompting Deliberation about Nanotechnology: Information, Instruction, and Discussion Effects on Individual Engagement and Knowledge

Lisa M. PytlikZillig, Myiah J. Hutchens, Peter Muhlberger, and Alan J. Tomkins

Beyond Aggregation: “The Wisdom of Crowds” Meets Dialogue in the Case Study of Shaping America’s Youth

Renee G. Heath, Ninon Lewis, Brit Schneider, and Elisa Majors

Explaining Political Efficacy in Deliberative Procedures: A Novel Methodological Approach

Brigitte Geissel and Pamela Hess

The Influence of Communication- and Organization-Related Factors on Interest in Participation in Campus Dialogic Deliberation

Gregory D. Paul

Focus Group Discussion as Sites for Public Deliberation and Sensemaking Following Shared Political Documentary Viewing

Margaret Jane Pitts, Kate Kenski, Stephanie A. Smith, and Corey A. Pavlich

Authority and Deliberative Moments: Assessing Equality and Inequality in Deeply Divided Groups

Rousiley C. M. Maia, Danila Cal, Janine K. R. Bargas, Vanessa V. Oliveira, Patrícia G. C. Rossini, and Rafael C. Sampaio

“Nothing about Politics”: The Political Scope in rural Participatory Governance, A Case Study in the Basque Country, Spain

Patricia García-Espín

Organising Stakeholder Workshops in research and Innovation – Between Theory and Practice

Morten V. Nielsen, Nina Bryndum, and Bjørn Bedsted

Mediation Styles and Participants’ Perception of Success in Consultative Councils: The Case of Guadalajara, Mexico

David López García

 Reflections from the Field

Reading Between the Lines of Participation: Tenant Participation and Participatory Budgeting in Toronto Community Housing

Behrang Foroughi

            

For more Transparency in Deliberative Research: Implications for Deliberative Praxis

Maria Clara Jaramillo, Rousiley C.M. Maia, Simona Mameli, and Jürg Steiner

 Book Reviews

Review of Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration by Teresa M. Bejan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017)

Donna Schenck-Hamlin

Review of Listening for Democracy: Recognition, Representation, Reconciliation by Andrew Dobson (New York: Oxford University Press: 2014)

Marietjie Oelofsen