Creating Space for Democracy

This primer offers a blueprint for achieving the civicmission of higher education by incorporating dialogue and deliberation intolearning at colleges and universities. It opens by providing a conceptualframework, with leading voices in the dialogue and deliberation field providinginsights on issues pertinent to college campuses, from free speech and academicfreedom to neutrality and the role of deliberation in civic engagement. Subsequent sections describe a diverse range of methods and approaches used by severalorganizations that pioneered and sustained deliberative practices; outline someof the many ways in which educators and institutions are using dialogue anddeliberation in curricular, co-curricular, and community spaces, including venuessuch as student centers, academic libraries, and residence halls. This book is an importantresource for campus leaders, student affairs practitioners, librarians, andcenters of institutional diversity, community engagement, teaching excellenceand service-learning, as well as faculty, particularly those in the fields of communicationstudies, education, and political science.Published in Association with Campus Compact and AAC&U