Kettering Foundation imprint: 20 books

Democratizing Deliberation

A Political Theory Anthology

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

Democratizing Deliberation brings together recent and cutting-edge political theory scholarship on deliberative democracy. Edited by Kettering Foundation program officer Derek Barker, Noëlle McAfee, associate professor of philosophy at Emory University and associate editor of the Kettering Review,...

Collected Essays

Kettering Foundation International Residents

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

Some of the rich contributions to research at the Kettering Foundation come from the many visitors and residents who stay at the foundation for short periods of time and work on ideas related to the research of the foundation, but considered through their own lenses of practice and place. Collected...

Journalism as a Democratic Art

Selected Essays by Cole C. Campbell

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

Journalism as a Democratic Art is an edited collection of 16 essays by Cole Campbell (1954–2007), former newspaper editor, dean at the University of Nevada School of Journalism, and a colleague of the Kettering Foundation. These essays reflect Campbell’s effort to rethink some of the underlying...
by David Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996

Originally published in 1996, there still remains a public for Is There A Public For Public Schools? In this book, David Mathews reports on troublesome trends in public education, which suggest that the historical compact between Americans and their public schools is rapidly eroding. School reform...

Agent of Democracy

Higher Education and the HEX Journey

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008

The professional mind-set prevailing in higher education today often ignores the “common goods” that only democratic self-rule can provide. Why? Some say the professional mind-set is profoundly antidemocratic, especially when it presumes that specialized knowledge and experience is a sufficient...

Collective Decision Making Around the World

Essays on Historical Deliberative Practices

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

Is public deliberation rare? How widespread has it been? Are deliberation’s organic practices at the very core of collective decision making? Did it exist before governments developed?

The case studies included in this book, edited by Kettering Foundation program officer Ileana Marin, begin...

Deliberation in the Classroom

Fostering Critical Thinking, Community, and Citizenship in Schools

by Dr. Stacie Molnar-Main
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

From the first appearance of the National Issues Forums in 1982, teachers have recognized the usefulness of both the NIF issue guides and the process of framing issues for deliberation as models for the role and work of citizens in a democracy. In 2006, the foundation began a series of learning exchanges—known...

Voice and Judgment

The Practice of Public Politics

by Robert J. Kingston
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

In Voice and Judgment: The Practice of Public Politics, Robert Kingston, senior associate of the Kettering Foundation, provides a comprehensive analysis of the continuing public deliberations carried out, nationwide, over the past 30-some years, under the auspices of the National Issues Forums and...

Speaking of Politics

Preparing College Students for Democratic Citizenship through Deliberative Dialogue

by Katy J. Harriger, Jill J. McMillan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007

In this book, authors Katy J.. Harriger and Jill J.. McMillan follow the “Democracy Fellows,” a group of 30 college students, during their 4 years at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to discover whether their experiences in learning and practicing deliberation might counteract...
by David Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

Reclaiming Public Education by Reclaiming Our Democracy is about what citizens and educators alike want from public education and how they might come closer to getting it. It is also about the obstacles that block them, beginning with significant differences in the ways that citizens see problems...

Community Educators

A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth

by Patricia Moore Harbour
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

Community Educators: A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth asserts that the relationships between education, community, and democracy are inseparable and illustrates that education is broader than just schooling. Harbour challenges current thinking about education and reveals how the public...

Deliberation & the Work of Higher Education

Innovations for the Classroom, the Campus, and the Community

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008

This book, edited by Kettering Foundation Vice President and Program Director John Dedrick along with Laura Grattan and Harris Dienstfrey, demonstrates how deliberation can help higher education renew its mission of preparing citizens to sustain democracy and stimulate civic involvement on college...
by Christy Buchanan, Katy Harriger, Jill McMillan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

This report is a follow-up to Harriger and McMillan's Speaking of Politics: Preparing College Students for Democratic Citizenship through Deliberative Dialogue (Kettering Foundation Press, 2007). That book described a four-year study at Wake Forest University in which students, called Democracy Fellows,...

Beyond Politics As Usual

Paths for Engaging College Students in Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017

Beyond Politics as Usual: Paths for Engaging College Students in Politics sheds light on the political learning, thinking, and acting of college students today. The book, edited by Kettering program officers Ileana Marin and Ray Minor, endeavors to reveal the current practices and approaches that...
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