Practical approaches and strategies for developing students’ capacity to engage in collaborative, public problem-solving.

Author: Longo, N. V.

Mar. 16, 2023

Dialogue & Deliberation Student Civic Learning & Leadership

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Developing Civic Professionals

Practicing Democracy: A Toolkit for Educating Civic Professionals, published by AAC&U and Campus Compact, offers practical approaches and strategies for developing students’ capacity to engage in collaborative, public problem solving. It provides tools for the students to learn to facilitate inclusive and participatory processes that make a difference. The lessons in the online, user-friendly guide are designed to educate publicly engaged leaders, or civic professionals.

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Using Practicing Democracy in the classroom

Practicing Democracy is a practical guide, with 12 easy-to-use lesson plans, along with an assessment rubric. With civic prompts that can be used as stand-alone conversation starters or a sustained curriculum over a semester, this book is meant to invite educators across every discipline to “find creative ways to inspire dialogue.” We hope you take the time to try out some of the lesson plans and then let us know what you are learning. We want to hear about your own practical experiments with educating for democracy.