5.8
Practicing Deliberation with Others
Submitted by Debra Campbell
This activity introduces the concept of legislative juries to participants and gives them the opportunity to practice deliberating in collaboration with others.
TIME
60
min
MODULE
Civic Collaboration
This activity is more involved or complicated than a beginner activity. This activity is for groups that have established trust or experience with discussion.
This activity is suitable for professional or more formal learning environments.
This activity is focused on developing or supporting listening skills. See Sample Listening Certificate Program Design to illustrate sample sequencing.
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YD
December 3, 2022 at 2:34:46 AM
Activity 5.8 further explores direct democracy by proposing the idea of "legislative juries" to improve the current initiative process through collaboration and deliberation. This activity uses role playing to have participants practice deliberation as part of a mock legislative jury to craft ballot initiatives on a given issue.