Education for Deliberation: Practices of Inquiry in Dialogue-Based Democratic Education. DELIBERATE.

DELIBERATE-consortium aims to create a novel, elaborated, and practicable understanding of the practice of deliberation in democratic education. The project combines three intertwined lines of research with theoretical (University of Oulu), empirical (University of Turku) and pedagogical (Tampere University) research approach.

The Research Council of Finland funded research consortium “DELIBERATE: Education for deliberation: Practices of inquiry in dialogue-based democratic education” was launched Sep 1st 2024. DELIBERATE seeks a novel understanding of the practice of deliberation in democratic education with three sub-projects focused on philosophical, empirical and pedagogical questions of dialogue-based democratic education. The project team consists of six members from three universities: professor Katariina Holma (consortium leader) and postdoctoral researcher Hanna-Maija Huhtala at the University of Oulu, professor Jan Löfström and doctoral researcher Julia Jaakkola at the University of Turku, and professor emeritus Veli-Matti Värri and university researcher Tuukka Tomperi at the Tampere University. ...

Deliberate

/dɪˈlɪbəɹət/ (adj.)
/dɪˈlɪbəɹeɪt/ (verb)

From Latin deliberatus (“considered”), from libra (“a scale”, “a balance”), libro (“I weigh”), delibero (“I consider, weigh well”).

Adjective: 
1. Done on purpose; intentional. 
2. Formed with deliberation; carefully considered; not sudden or rash. 
3. Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; slow in determining. 
4. Not hasty or sudden; slow.

Verb: 
1. (transitive) To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind. 
2. (intransitive) To consider the reasons for and against anything; to reflect.