Deliberation With Working College Students Influencing Civic Learning, Opinion Formation and Engagement

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Author(s): Christopher McCarthy-Latimer (Framingham State University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 19
Source title: Civic Engagement and Politics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7669-3.ch012

Keywords: Civic Engagement / Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This article describes the results from the use of deliberation in the classroom where a majority of students are working. The course included college students from Framingham State University. They discussed the issue of the economic impact of a big-box store. This analysis includes a study of the deliberative polling literature; research of the data on civic learning; an examination of the data comprising net changes in the participants' opinions and gross changes in the participants' opinions; and finally a discussion of the implications for engagement. The results illustrate that the process of deliberation affects changes in attitude items at both the individual and aggregate level.

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