Dialogue vs. Discussion: Creating an Environment of Civility, Mutual Respect, and Acceptance
Start Date
8-14-2019 12:00 AM
Description
This interdisciplinary session considers how educators can engage students in meaningful dialogue, particularly around controversial topics. Regardless of the discipline, rather than referee of a series of monologues on a topic, educators can use their role to facilitate and mediate dialogue that draws students into impactful conversations. Our goal is to help educators guide students into dialogue with each other as co-equal members of a learning community. And we see facilitation techniques drawn from grassroots community organizing as one way to start having those productive conversations.
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Dialogue vs. Discussion: Creating an Environment of Civility, Mutual Respect, and Acceptance
This interdisciplinary session considers how educators can engage students in meaningful dialogue, particularly around controversial topics. Regardless of the discipline, rather than referee of a series of monologues on a topic, educators can use their role to facilitate and mediate dialogue that draws students into impactful conversations. Our goal is to help educators guide students into dialogue with each other as co-equal members of a learning community. And we see facilitation techniques drawn from grassroots community organizing as one way to start having those productive conversations.