ABSTRACT
Sir Walter Citrine acknowledges in his guide that there are no legal rules of debate, but that associations tend to draw up their own rules or "standing orders". This chapter describes that the similarity of meeting forms makes them a universalizing modern practice in which participants may engage in the disciplinary processes of the state; indeed, some participants enact the state through the kind of disciplinary processes and actions. Lave and Wenger's theory of situated peripheral participation highlights the everyday learning that adults, as well as children undertake, as part of the performance of social personhood. The chapter shows how students learn to behave in municipal meeting style, which provides not only training for future politicians, but a means to interpret municipal meetings that students may later encounter. The DUK is an arena in which school representatives may take their seats in the council chamber in a youth version of the full municipal council.
