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The local school board is one of America’s enduring venues of lay democracy at work. In Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, Robert Asen takes the pulse of this democratic exemplar through an in-depth study of three local school boards in Wisconsin. In so doing, Asen identifies the broader democratic ideal in the most parochial of American settings. Conducted over two years across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines, Asen’s research reveals as much about the possibilities and pitfalls of local democracy as it does about educational policy. From issues as old as racial integration and as contemporary as the recognition of the Gay-Straight Alliance in high schools, Democracy, Deliberation, and Education illustrates how ordinary folks build and sustain their vision for a community and its future through consequential public decision making.For all the research on school boards conducted in recent years, no other project so directly addresses school boards as deliberative policymaking bodies. Democracy, Deliberation, and Education draws from 250 school-board meetings and 31 interviews with board members and administrators to offer insight into participants’ varied understandings of their roles in the complex mechanism of governance.

Deliberative democracy --- Democracy and education --- Education and state --- School boards --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric. --- Boards of education --- School governors --- School trustees --- School management and organization --- School districts --- State boards of education --- Education --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Education and democracy --- Discursive democracy --- Democracy --- Government policy --- America. --- Asen. --- Gay-Straight Alliance. --- Wisconsin. --- civics. --- deliberation. --- democracy. --- education. --- ethics. --- issue. --- policy. --- politics. --- race. --- racial integration. --- school board. --- school. --- society. --- socioeconomics. --- united states. --- us. --- usa.

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This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of "the public" or "public life," and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map various practices. This volume proposes a new metaphor-modalities-to suggest that publics are forever in flux, and much more fluid and dynamic than the static models of systems or spheres would indicate-especially in the digital age, where various publics rapidly evolve and dissipate.

Mass media --- Rhetoric --- Politics and culture --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Political aspects --- Social aspects

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Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out into the field, where rhetoric is produced, enacted, and consumed. These field-based practices involve observation, ethnographic interviews, and performance. They are not intended to displace text-based approaches; rather, they expand the idea of method by helping rhetorical scholars arrive at new and complementary answers to long-standing disciplinary questions about text, context, audience, judgment, and ethics. The first volume in rhetoric and communication to directly address the relevance, processes, and implications of using field methods to augment traditional scholarship, Text + Field provides a framework for adapting these new tools to traditional rhetorical inquiry. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Roberta Chevrette, Kathleen M. de Onís, Danielle Endres, Joshua P. Ewalt, Alina Haliliuc, Aaron Hess, Jamie Landau, Michael Middleton, Tiara R. Na’puti, Jessy J. Ohl, Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Damien Smith Pfister, Samantha Senda-Cook, Lisa Silvestri, and Valerie Thatcher.

Rhetoric --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Fieldwork. --- Methodology. --- Asen. --- Chávez. --- Howard. --- McKinnon. --- rhetoric. --- ”field-based practices”. --- ”method”. --- ”rhetorical inquiry”. --- ”scholarship”.