Friday, July 3, 2009
Participatory Democracy
I wasn’t aware of democracy models. Out of the five democracy models described in the web lecture, dialogic democracy is the best in theory as people can express themselves and people listen, thus results in cooperative learning. However, as mentioned in the lecture, it can be “time consuming and requires a lot of commitment”; and some people might falter and time might be limited. So in general and overall, I think participatory democracy is the best as people also participate and have good knowledge and talk about important issues. I am aware that it has negatives such as the “unequal distribution of power and lack of information”, however in a democracy power cannot be equal anyway.
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I definalely agree. When fist glancing at this chapter I too was not aware of different types of democracies. When people can help themselves learn, then we know that they can help themsleves and others evolve as time passes buy. Cooperative learning is such a good result of democracy to have because it put everyone in a position where they know what is expected of them. If everyone does there job to the fullest while everone is on the same page, then results for the company are endless.
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