Volume
55
Issue
5
DOI
10.34068/joe.55.05.24
Abstract
Cooperative Extension has a rich history of providing research-based knowledge and functioning as a catalyst for change through community engagement. It is via this second dimension of its identity that Extension has long played a role in creating space for public issues to be understood through deliberative discussion. Rather than view the use of deliberation and discussion as only a recent development in Extension's approach to engaging citizens about public issues, I highlight efforts and challenges related to Extension's experiment with deliberation and discussion in the 1930s and 1940s and use this historic perspective to identify important implications for Extension today.
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Recommended Citation
Shaffer, T. J. (2017). Supporting the "Archstone of Democracy": Cooperative Extension's Experiment with Deliberative Group Discussion. The Journal of Extension, 55(5), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.55.05.24
