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Description
This study recovers the Open Forum lecture movement and explores its relevance. Understanding this initiative broadens our awareness of personal and community courage and democratic planning. This study recovers the movement and shows what can be applied to our time.
Product Details
| Publisher | University Press of America |
| Publish Date | November 21, 2012 |
| Pages | 188 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780761859260 |
| Dimensions | 9.1 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Arthur S. Meyers, director of Russell Library in Middletown, Connecticut, has been researching and writing about the Open Forum movement for more than two decades.
Reviews
...[A] clearly-drawn narrative....connect[ing] this non-sectarian, semi-secular movement to the Chautauqua and Lyceum movements of earlier generations.
...A valuable resource...useful not only because it revives this history but also because it illustrates how the past can help to inform the present. The National Issues Forums are certainly a close descendant of this important movement.
...Meyers does more than simply reintroduce an important piece of our civic past; he also presents us with a model for rejuvenating contemporary public life.
I recommend this book highly for students of adult education and for public officials and civic leaders who want a model of public discourse for civil conversation in a time of polarization.
Meyers' original and exciting investigation [and] deft, nuanced analysis....thoroughly explores the movement's strengths and weaknesses, providing insights that will be valuable to historians--and to all who seek to develop inclusive solutions to social problems.
This vivid new window brings forward Mary Caroline Crawford, a woman who shaped progressive public discourse.
...A valuable resource...useful not only because it revives this history but also because it illustrates how the past can help to inform the present. The National Issues Forums are certainly a close descendant of this important movement.
...Meyers does more than simply reintroduce an important piece of our civic past; he also presents us with a model for rejuvenating contemporary public life.
I recommend this book highly for students of adult education and for public officials and civic leaders who want a model of public discourse for civil conversation in a time of polarization.
Meyers' original and exciting investigation [and] deft, nuanced analysis....thoroughly explores the movement's strengths and weaknesses, providing insights that will be valuable to historians--and to all who seek to develop inclusive solutions to social problems.
This vivid new window brings forward Mary Caroline Crawford, a woman who shaped progressive public discourse.
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