Impacts On Participants
People who believe in deliberation believe that a deliberative process is important to any responsible citizen. Over all, NIF is an enriching educational experience. A participant usually gained knowledge on the issues deliberated from the forums at NIF.
The following are the possible impacts of NIF on participants, (Melville, Willingham, Dedrick, 2005):
- Participation in NIF forums heightens interest in specific issues and in public affair and leads to higher levels of public engagement
- Participation in NIF forums broadens the outlook of participants.
- As a result of participating in forums, individuals come to experience themselves in different ways, and they learn new ways of taking part in groups.
- Participation in NIF forums enhances people’s sense of themselves as political actors who can make a difference in their communities.
- People construe their self-interest more broadly as a result of taking part in deliberative conversations.
- Deliberation helps people move beyond superficial preferences to considered public judgment.
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