Systems Language for e-Democracy: Personal Resource Systems Management (PRSM), a Model and Action Research |
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Authors: | Barbara McFall Stephanie Williams |
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Institution: | (1) Division of Family and Consumer Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia;(2) McDowell High School and Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers –, Millcreek Township School District, Millcreek Township School District, Erie, Pennsylvania |
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Abstract: | In ancient Athens, the Agora was a place for collective decision making about personal and community issues. New Agoras, most recently Internet-enabled ones, now propose to enliven participatory democracy and establish systems by which our institutions can serve us and we can govern ourselves (B. H. Banathy, Guided Evolution of Society: A Systems View, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, New York, 2000). Effective participation in such activity will require a language and consciousness not currently in evidence, and learning beyond current parameters. In this article, high school students from Stephanie Williams' Child Development classes at McDowell High School, Millcreek Township School District, demonstrate use of a new paradigm. This model of Personal Resource Systems Management provides systems language for Agora discourse enabling effective participatory democracy. |
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Keywords: | Agora participatory democracy Internet educational reform systems model social systems design evolutionary systems personal resource systems management (PRSM) family and consumer sciences (FCS) |
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