Australian schools as deliberative spaces: framing the goal of active and informed citizenship

Sorial, Sarah; Peterson, Andrew

doi:10.1080/09585176.2018.1553726

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“…These institutions and processes, which include those deliberative practices operated within and through education and schooling but also move beyond these to incorporate informal forms of participation outside and beyond of formal education (for example, within civil society), provide opportunities for pupils as citizens to develop and express their own character-including their civic virtues. That such processes offer formative educational opportunities through promoting good judgement in political realms is not uncommonly professed in the policy and academic literature on citizenship education (Gutmann, 1987;Carnegie Corporation & CIRCLE, 2003;Peterson, 2009;QCA, 1998;Sorial & Peterson, 2019) and there are examples of practical programmes combining character and citizenship education for this purpose (see, for example, Alberta Education, 2005 12 ).…”

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Character education, the individual and the political

Peterson

2019

Journal of Moral Education

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Recent critics have suggested that character education (either in and of itself or certain instantiations of it) is overly individualised and, as a result, fails to engage adequately with the political. In this paper, I offer an account of character education which takes issue with such criticisms, and seeks to make clear connections between the moral and the political necessary for character formation and expression. Drawing on an Aristotelian understanding of the political, I argue that individuals are intimately connected with their social associations, which in contemporary plural, westernised democracies include the sort of engagement with the political advocated by critics of character education. Through a focus on civic virtue and deliberative engagement, it is argued that an Aristotelian-inspired account of character addresses the precise concerns, including recognising and challenging social injustices and deliberative engagement with difference, which critics suggest are lacking from character education.

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Character education, the individual and the political

Peterson

2019

Journal of Moral Education

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Educating Civility in Schools

Peterson

2019

SpringerBriefs in Education

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Place-bound planning support systems for deliberation: Affording better communication and comprehension

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Mello Rose,

Yossef Ravid

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Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Despite planning support systems (PSS) becoming increasingly useful for citizen participation processes, the effects of such systems’ material and spatial setup on citizen participation processes still need to be studied. PSS have long been equated to software- and data-based technologies, and only little attention has been put on place-bound PSS that prescribe onsite face-to-face collaboration. As closing the ‘implementation gap’ requires extensive conceptualisation, description, and critical analysis of different ideal types, workings, and use cases of PSS, this study researches this understudied place-bound type of PSS. More precisely, this study uses empirical material from Haifa’s 3 S Lab to contribute to closing the implementation gap by identifying place-bound PSS – an under-studied type of PSS – as useful for deliberative decision-making – an overlooked implementation context. This research advances the conceptualisation of PSS by discussing place-bound PSS and their hypothesised utility, practical setup, and empirically tested benefits for deliberative citizen participation. We find that the benefits of place-bound PSS for planning lie in deliberative affordances that ease the communication and comprehension deficiencies that often plague deliberative citizen participation processes. As place-bound PSS, the 3 S Lab provides an immersive shared space that improves communication, while its interactive visualisation techniques afford improved comprehension of complex urban issues.

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Australian schools as deliberative spaces: framing the goal of active and informed citizenship

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

Character education, the individual and the political

Character education, the individual and the political

Educating Civility in Schools

Place-bound planning support systems for deliberation: Affording better communication and comprehension

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