Encouraging College Students' Democratic Engagement in an Era of Political Polarization

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