Deweyian Impulses in Danish Community Building: Propaedeutic Rhetorical Citizenship

TY - CHAP

T1 - Deweyian Impulses in Danish Community Building: Propaedeutic Rhetorical Citizenship

AU - Villadsen, Lisa Storm

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - As a contemporary instantiation of Dewey’s notion of “trained capacities”, i.e. the building of social competencies in real life engagements with others, I offer the notion of propaedeutic rhetorical citizenship as a concept useful for theorizing important early stages of public engagement and for describing essential qualities in the Danish “Civic Desire” project. I focus on two particular “Civic Desire” formats as examples of how to pursue the Deweyian ambition of developing new ways for citizens to communicate in ways that support their personal growth as social beings and partakers of democratic community building.

AB - As a contemporary instantiation of Dewey’s notion of “trained capacities”, i.e. the building of social competencies in real life engagements with others, I offer the notion of propaedeutic rhetorical citizenship as a concept useful for theorizing important early stages of public engagement and for describing essential qualities in the Danish “Civic Desire” project. I focus on two particular “Civic Desire” formats as examples of how to pursue the Deweyian ambition of developing new ways for citizens to communicate in ways that support their personal growth as social beings and partakers of democratic community building.

M3 - Book chapter

BT - Lippmann/Dewey

A2 - Bjørkdahl, Kristian

PB - University of Pennsylvania Press

ER -