Stewards of Place: The Role of Dialogue and Deliberation in Strengthening Our Universities and Colleges

The Politics of Knowledge: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Justice Work in Higher Education Institutions

“…Deliberative pedagogy helps to broaden how university stakeholders think about engaged pedagogies, especially when considering the intersection of engagement and democratic processes. When they expand their conceptualization of engaged pedagogies to include deliberation, discussion, and/or dialogue, they find scholarly interest in the roles of discourse and engagement in higher education settings (Brookfield & Preskill, 2005;Dedrick, Grattan, & Dienstfrey, 2008;Sara A. Mehltretter Drury, 2015;Isgro & Deal, 2013;Latimer & Hempson, 2012;Lawrence, Justus, Murray, & Brown, 2015;Longo, 2013;Shaffer, 2014Shaffer, , 2016Shaffer, Longo, Manosevitch, & Thomas, 2017). As Murti (2009) wrote: One of my reasons for adopting deliberative dialogue as a pedagogical tool in preference over debates lay in the fact that deliberative dialogue goes beyond these adversarial forms of communication that see their raison d'être in the dichotomy of winner/loser.…”