Joni Doherty, a Kettering Foundation program officer, recently wrote an article about the framing and use of a series of Historic Decisions issue guides that have been produced by museums around the country.
Join museum and humanities educators from across the country for an online introduction to creating issue guides for deliberating about historic decisions. Looking at history from a deliberative perspective expands our sense of who can be a political actor and where political actions can occur.
Veronica Adams-Cooper, PhD, Albany State University professor, and National Issues Forums (NIF) moderator submitted a report on a forum (held via Webex) that she convened and moderated at Albany State University, in Albany, Georgia on May 3, 2022.
The National Week of Conversation is an initiative of dozens of national partnering organizations designed to engage people with different points of view in productive discussions of important public issues in ways they can replicate in their own communities.
During the week of April 11-16, students will have the opportunity to participate in National Issues Forums online using the Common Ground for Action platform.
The civic practices of using deliberative discussions to build understanding and shared purposes across difference will be explored in a National Issues Forums (NIF) workshop at the upcoming Campus Compact 2022 national conference. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a forum using the National Issues Forums discussion guide Youth and Opportunity.
Over 180 people from 143 organizations in 43 states and several other countries participated in the National Issues Forums Institute’s workshop on moderating deliberative discussions in communities, on campuses, and in classrooms—in both in-person and online settings. The workshop served as an introduction for new moderators and as a refresher and deeper dive for those who are experienced. In addition to overviewing what has been learned about effective moderator practices, a wide range of materials were shared that can be adapted for use in locally-organized workshops.
A February 11, 2022 article published in the Illinois State University News describes a rapidly expanding program of deliberative dialogues in classrooms at Illinois State University.
