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Contemporary American Citizenship: = A Genre Analysis and Phenomenological Investigation of Civic Education Centers.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Contemporary American Citizenship: /
其他題名:	A Genre Analysis and Phenomenological Investigation of Civic Education Centers.
作者:	Goldsmith, Brandon Chase.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (184 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
標題:	Communication. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355359497

Contemporary American Citizenship: = A Genre Analysis and Phenomenological Investigation of Civic Education Centers.
Goldsmith, Brandon Chase.

Contemporary American Citizenship: A Genre Analysis and Phenomenological Investigation of Civic Education Centers. - 1 online resource (184 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Memphis, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

American democracy demands deliberative debates rather than dictatorship, which require engaged individuals equipped with civic communication skills. The establishing of united states created a need to educate democratic citizens. This study investigates what it means to be an active American citizen and how citizenship is conceptualized and rhetorically practiced in the United States. In surveying civic education centers housed at universities that teach various ideals of democratic citizenship, I focus a close analysis on university-based associations from three national organizations: Western Kentucky University's Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility and ALIVE Center for Community Partnerships (America Democracy Project), Michigan State University's Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (Campus Compact), and Colorado State University's Center for Public Deliberation (National Issues Forums Institute). I argue that the rhetoric of these centers constitutes a genre of human communication that expresses democratic voices. I employ a discourse genre analysis to find that the civic education center genre is characterized as (1) a rhetorical response to America's democratic problem of participation that (2) communicates the common purpose of teaching citizenship. I identify four shared themes that reveal the rhetorical view of the ideal citizen put forth by the centers. Next, I perform a phenomenological investigation in order to explore the space where the students' experiences and centers' discourses interconnect. Four common themes emerge from the student interviews: (1) giving back; (2) community engagement; (3) making a difference; and (4) gaining an awareness of others. In examining their lived experiences, I discover expressions of how citizenship feels. Finally, I rhetorically analyze my phenomenological results to illuminate the centers' influences and their effectiveness. I find that the students appear to adopt the centers' language, and that the managers and staff view them as being successful. Studying civic education centers as a genre exposes an important aspect of the rhetorical foundation of the American democratic system. I conclude that this civic education center discursive genre: (1) reveals democracy as a communication process, (2) exposes the affective aspects of citizenship, and (3) expands the sphere of democracy. Overall, my research contributes to the field by bringing to light significant connections between communication and citizenship.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355359497Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Communication.
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