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Creating a Public Sphere in the Secondary Language Arts Classroom: Empowering Students to Think and Write Critically About Outside the Classroom

Creating a Public Sphere in the Secondary Language Arts Classroom: Empowering Students to Think... Introduction In his seminal text, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Habermas (1996) explored the complicated definition of the term “public,” noting how the concept his- torically connotes privilege and exclusion by the controlling elite, most notably by members of the nobility and the Church in feudal Europe. In essence, Habermas demonstrated how dis- course about public matters has historically been narrowly controlled by the status quo. All too often, stakeholders are not only denied the Creating a Public Sphere in the ability to vocalize their opinions, they are com- Secondary Language Arts Classroom: pletely marginalized from “public” view. Over Empowering Students to Think and time, the feudal public sphere was replaced by Write Critically About Outside the a bourgeoisie public sphere where “the ruler’s Classroom power was merely represented before the peo- ple with a sphere in which state authority was publicly monitored through informed and criti- William C. Sewell cal discourse by the people” (McCarthy, 1996, The University of Kansas p. xvi). Fraser, however, took exception to the Habermasian bourgeoisie public sphere because of its “claim to be open and accessible to all” (“Rethinking”, 1996, p. 118) has not been adequately attained. Rational, critical debate in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The High School Journal University of North Carolina Press

Creating a Public Sphere in the Secondary Language Arts Classroom: Empowering Students to Think and Write Critically About Outside the Classroom

The High School Journal , Volume 92 (1) – Nov 13, 2008

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2008 The University of North Carolina Press.
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1534-5157

Abstract

Introduction In his seminal text, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Habermas (1996) explored the complicated definition of the term “public,” noting how the concept his- torically connotes privilege and exclusion by the controlling elite, most notably by members of the nobility and the Church in feudal Europe. In essence, Habermas demonstrated how dis- course about public matters has historically been narrowly controlled by the status quo. All too often, stakeholders are not only denied the Creating a Public Sphere in the ability to vocalize their opinions, they are com- Secondary Language Arts Classroom: pletely marginalized from “public” view. Over Empowering Students to Think and time, the feudal public sphere was replaced by Write Critically About Outside the a bourgeoisie public sphere where “the ruler’s Classroom power was merely represented before the peo- ple with a sphere in which state authority was publicly monitored through informed and criti- William C. Sewell cal discourse by the people” (McCarthy, 1996, The University of Kansas p. xvi). Fraser, however, took exception to the Habermasian bourgeoisie public sphere because of its “claim to be open and accessible to all” (“Rethinking”, 1996, p. 118) has not been adequately attained. Rational, critical debate in

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The High School JournalUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Nov 13, 2008

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