Open, Risky, and Antioppressive: Hope for an Agonistic Deliberative Model. A Response to "Empowering Young People through Conflict and Conciliation: Attending to the Political and Agonism in Democratic Education"

Authors

Matthew Thomas-reid, Appalachian State UniversityFollow

Abstract

First, I review the context for the need of new deliberative models, specifically agonistic deliberative models, for public discourse and for use in training students for public discourse. I then highlight five specific points that I trouble and enrich, principally through the work of Giroux, Arendt, Biesta, and Duarte. While I agree that there is great value in Lo’s description of the agonistic deliberative model, I advocate for what Biesta would call a weaker model of deliberation, one that sets the conditions for transformative education but one that does not act as an instrument for it.

Response to Article

Jane C. Lo, Empowering Young People through Conflict and Conciliation: Attending to the Political and Agonism in Democratic Education

Recommended Citation

Thomas-reid, M. (2018). Open, Risky, and Antioppressive: Hope for an Agonistic Deliberative Model. A Response to "Empowering Young People through Conflict and Conciliation: Attending to the Political and Agonism in Democratic Education". Democracy and Education, 26 (1), Article 9.
Available at: https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol26/iss1/9