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.
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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