“…By engaging her students in discussion of controversial literary texts (Eberly, 2000), practices of creative writing (Eberly, 1999) and collections of public memory of traumatic events (Eberly, 2004), rhetoric scholar Rosa Eberly has provided examples of how classrooms can be turned into protopublic spaces (Eberly, 1999 and2000, p. 168-172) where students get in contact with and engage in the public sphere as a "discursive space in which individuals and groups associate to discuss matters of mutual interest and, where possible, to reach a common judgment about them" (Hauser, 1999, p. 61).…”