É possível aprender habilidades para discussão democrática? Um experimento sobre capacitação deliberativa com temas controversos

Rousiley  Maia; Augusto Veloso Leão; Fernanda Nalon Sanglard; Érica Anita  Baptista; Gabriell Hauber; Leonardo  Santa Inês; Danila Cal

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.14705

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Rousiley Maia Federal University of Minas Gerais https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8123-2406
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Methodology
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
Augusto Veloso Leão Federal University of Minas Gerais https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0036-4982
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Methodology
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
Fernanda Nalon Sanglard PUC Minas
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Methodology
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
Érica Anita Baptista University of Brasília https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3154-3820
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Methodology
- Investigation
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
Gabriell Hauber Federal University of Technology of Paraná https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6848-2518
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Methodology
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
Leonardo Santa Inês Federal University of Goiás https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4796-7529
- Conceptualization
- Formal Analysis
- Data Curation
- Methodology
- Writing – Original Draft Preparation
Danila Cal Federal University of Para https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3243-8368
- Conceptualization
- Data Curation
- Formal Analysis
- Investigation
- Methodology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.14705

Keywords:

deliberative democracy, experimental method, experiments in deliberation, deliberation and education, discussion-based learning

Abstract

This article explores the application of the principles of deliberative democracy for teaching and developing skills for democratic discussion, based on a field experiment with more than 500 young people in public schools between 2018 and 2022. Based on studies about citizen assemblies with a deliberative design and recent initiatives in the education sector, the analyses highlight the importance of experimental research, with the use of treatment and control groups, to examine different capacities in concrete discussion practices – competences for justification of preferences and aptitude to present personal stories to support positions and concerns; inclusion and respectful engagement. It focuses on challenges for identifying and measuring the effects of programmatic workshops on changes in participant behavior and, also, for capturing differences among groups in distinct socioeconomic contexts. The article contributes to filling a gap in the current literature and advancing a research agenda to motivate teaching and training for capacity building for democratic discussion on controversial topics – an emerging field with great potential for replication and social intervention on a broad scale.