Teaching Deliberative Democracy to Young People; The Compartilha Project (#48)

In this episode, your host Sam Vilkins speaks with two visiting scholars to the Digital Media Research Centre - Julia Ester de Paula and Thales Antonelli. They speak about the Comphartilha project, which has been introduced in Brazilian schools to develop skills in deliberative democracy. Julia and Thales explain what deliberative democracy is, the benefit of supporting this in schools, and how a creative game can build confidence and deliberative democratic skills in school students.