Listening to strangers at school
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Which two angles does Parker use to explain why seminar and deliberation have the potential for engendering political trust?
What happens in a seminar? What is it's goal?
2) Seminars encourage students to see the world more deeply and clearly thanks to the text, opening question, and multiple interpretations and experiences that are brought to bear by discussants.
What happens in a deliberation? What is it's goal?
2) The discussion is aimed at deciding, and the text is a controversial issue. Discussants are finding, studying, and weighing alternatives in order to decide a course of action - a public policy.
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How are seminar and deliberation different?
Deliberation is focussed on world-changing (engaging) functions of classroom discussion. Concerned with action in the world.
Seminar and deliberation need to done with others, why?
2) Scientific ethos: Inquiry is a public matter, open disputation as to who has got it right.
3) Collaboration ethos: the array of alternative interpretations (in seminar) and solutions (in deliberation) that a group generates will be broader than one could accomplish working alone.
4) Pluralism ethos: Alternatives stem from different social perspectives, and these from social positions, that are more or less different from one's own, thereby developing the participant social knowledge while contributing to a better solution.
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