Democratic Deliberation with Sheron Fraser-Burgess

Examining Ethics

Deliberative democracy is a school of political thought in which conversation takes on a central role. It’s different from representative democracy, which involves voting and polling, because it focuses on discussion and understanding to move forward on issues. Sheron Fraser-Burgess, professor of social foundations and multicultural education at Ball State University, explains that educators can take principles from deliberative democracy and apply them to a classroom setting. In her work, she advocates for democratic deliberation, which is a means of teaching students not only how to work through cultural differences, but also how to be better citizens in a democracy.

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Shownotes

• Sheron Fraser-Burgess
  • “Deliberating through group differences in education for trust and mutual respect“
• Deliberative democracy
• John Dewey
• Amy Guttman
• Danielle Allen, Talking to Strangers
• Hannah Arendt and desegregation
• Womanism
  • Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
• Ideal and non-ideal theory in political philosophy

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