Kei Nishiyama

Kaichi International University
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    Deliberative Facilitation in the Classroom: The Interplay of Facilitative Technique and Design to Make Space for Democracy
    with Russell A. Wendy, Pierrick Chalaye, and Greenwell Tom
    Democracy and Education 31 (1): 1-11. 2023.
    Widespread global interest and adoption of deliberative democracy approaches to reinvigorate citi- zenship and policymaking in an era of democratic crisis/decline has been mirrored by increasing interest in deliberation in schools, both as an approach to pedagogy and student empowerment and as a training ground for deliberative citizenship. In school deliberation, as in other settings, a key and sometimes neglected element of high-quality deliberation is facilitation. Facilitation can help to es…Read more
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    Facilitation of deliberation in the classroom: The interplay of facilitative technique and design to increase inclusiveness
    with Wendy A. Russell and Chalaye Pierrick
    Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Working Paper 3 1-22. 2020.
    Widespread global interest and adoption of deliberative democracy approaches to reinvigorate citizenship and policy making in an era of democratic crisis/decline has been mirrored by increasing interest in deliberation in schools, both as an approach to pedagogy and student empowerment, and as a training ground for deliberative citizenship. In school deliberation, as in other settings, a key and sometimes neglected element of high-quality deliberation is facilitation. Facilitation can help to es…Read more
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    This article examines the relationship between Philosophy for/with Children and democracy from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. The first half of the article draws on the theory of deliberative democracy to identify some democratic aspects of Philosophy for/with Children. The second half of the article empirically investigates the way in which we can practice Philosophy for/with Children as a practice of deliberative democracy. To this end, the article illustrates the classroom activ…Read more
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    Engineer education as citizenship education
    with Ogawa Taiji and Murase Tomoyuki
    In Proceedings of InInternational Symposium on Advances in Technology Education Conference, International Symposium On Advances in Technology Education. pp. 326-331. 2020.
    Engineering and technology aim to lead a better life for people. But the meaning of “better” is highly contested in modern democratic societies where different citizens have different cultures and values. Engineers, as one of the citizens in such societies, are also living in multicultural and multi-value settings, and therefore they need to be responsible for such diversity when they engage in technological developments. Therefore, in engineering education, it is necessary to aim at not only a…Read more
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    In Philosophy for Children (P4C), consensus-making is often regarded as something that needs to be avoided. P4C scholars believe that consensus-making would dismiss P4C’s ideals, such as freedom, inclusiveness, and diversity. This paper aims to counteract such assumptions, arguing that P4C scholars tend to focus on a narrow, or universal, concept of “consensus” and dismiss various forms of consensus, especially what Niemeyer and Dryzek (2007) call meta-consensus. Meta-consensus does not search f…Read more