The Case Study on the Application of Deliberative Democracy - Study Circle Program in Senior High School Students’ Learning of Public Affairs Engagement
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Chang, Li-ping
Abstract
According to the viewpoints of the worldwide civic educationalists, students’ ability of citizen participation needs to be cultivated. Lately, the citizen participation pattern of deliberative democracy, which is being largely used in the discussion of many public issues, has become an effective way to promote citizen participation. Based on the theory of citizen participation and the citizen participation pattern of deliberative democracy, this case study, through applying the study circle model to the high school students’ learning process of citizen participation, observes and analyzes its feasibility in high school operation and to realize whether it is beneficial to high school students’ learning in citizen participation. he study, based on the steps of study circle, designs a public affairs learning circle and, prior to the implementation of the learning circle, forms a public affairs group to collect and analyze relevant materials regarding the public issues, so that the students may have a comprehensive understanding of the information. In this study, the experiments, observation and focused group have been applied. This case study selects one particular senior high school in northern Taiwan as its study target, and uses the agenda of retrieving school land as the subject of public affairs in the study. And the senior high school students in this high school are involved. The above is based on the five thinking aspects designed in this study, which are subjectivity, awareness, ways and degrees of participation, effects on civic education, and cost effects.his study is a qualitative research in which questionnaires, records, journals, group interviews and audio/video recordings are used to conduct the collection and analysis of study data. The findings are as follows. First, the public affairs group enables students to fully understand the school campus issue. Second, the public affairs learning circle acquaints students with the reasonable communication way of deliberative democracy and promote students’ participation in public affairs. Finally, the suggestions are as follows: First, the study circle model should be applied by high schools as a permanent and regular system to involve students’ participation in public affairs. Second, more teachers and students should be trained to involve in the leading work of deliberative democracy and learning circle. Third, public affairs group activities should be incorporated in citizen and society courses to cultivate high school students’ ability of citizen participation.
Subjects
deliberative democracy
citizen participation
deliberative democracy-citizen participation model
study circle
schools’ public affairs
civic participation skills
SDGs
Type
thesis
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