Making classroom discussions work : methods for quality dialogue in the social studies / Wayne Journell, Diana E. Hess ; edited by Jane C. Lo.
Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press, 2022Description: 256 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0049385937ISBN: 9780807766644 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Discussion -- Study and teaching | Social sciences -- Study and teaching | Education
| Education | Educational strategies & policy | Teaching skills & techniques | Educational administration & organization | Teaching of a specific subject | Educational: Social sciences, social studiesDDC classification: 371.37 LOC classification: LB1032Summary: Examines the importance of using quality dialogue as a tool to help students understand complex issues in social studies classrooms. The author provides a collection of well-known, evidence-based discussion techniques as well as classroom examples showing the methods in use. For the last 2 decades, the field of social studies education has seen an increase in research on the use of discussions as an essential instructional technique. This book examines the importance of using quality dialogue as a tool to help students understand complex issues in social studies classrooms. The author provides a collection of well-known, evidence-based discussion techniques as well as classroom examples showing the methods in use. While the benefits of using discussion as an instructional method is widely considered a best practice of civic learning, actual high-quality discussions are rare and notoriously difficult to facilitate. Making Classroom Discussions Work is designed to guide teacher educators and classroom teachers in facilitating equitable and productive discussions that will boost learning and democratic engagement.Book Features: Emphasizes the rationale for using discussion in social studies teaching. Collects strategies that have been proposed in disparate journal articles and books in one convenient volume. Presents research-based challenges and supports for conducting and assessing discussions in the social studies. Includes methods and tips to help teachers make discussions more equitable in their classrooms.
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For the past 2 decades, the field of social studies education has seen an increase in research on the use of discussions as an essential instructional technique. This book examines the importance of using quality dialogue as a tool to help students understand complex issues in social studies. This edited volume provides a collection of well-known, evidence-based discussion techniques, as well as classroom examples showing the methods in use. While using discussion as an instructional method is widely considered a best practice of civic learning, actual high-quality discussions are rare and notoriously difficult to facilitate. Making Classroom Discussions Work is designed to guide teacher educators and classroom teachers in facilitating equitable and productive discussions that will boost learning and democratic engagement.
Book Features:
Emphasizes the rationale for using discussion in social studies teaching. Collects strategies that have been proposed in disparate journal articles and books in one convenient volume. Presents research-based challenges and supports for conducting and assessing discussions in the social studies. Includes methods and tips to help teachers make discussions more equitable in their classrooms.Examines the importance of using quality dialogue as a tool to help students understand complex issues in social studies classrooms. The author provides a collection of well-known, evidence-based discussion techniques as well as classroom examples showing the methods in use. For the last 2 decades, the field of social studies education has seen an increase in research on the use of discussions as an essential instructional technique. This book examines the importance of using quality dialogue as a tool to help students understand complex issues in social studies classrooms. The author provides a collection of well-known, evidence-based discussion techniques as well as classroom examples showing the methods in use. While the benefits of using discussion as an instructional method is widely considered a best practice of civic learning, actual high-quality discussions are rare and notoriously difficult to facilitate. Making Classroom Discussions Work is designed to guide teacher educators and classroom teachers in facilitating equitable and productive discussions that will boost learning and democratic engagement.Book Features: Emphasizes the rationale for using discussion in social studies teaching. Collects strategies that have been proposed in disparate journal articles and books in one convenient volume. Presents research-based challenges and supports for conducting and assessing discussions in the social studies. Includes methods and tips to help teachers make discussions more equitable in their classrooms.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. vii)
- Acknowledgments (p. xi)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part I Engaging in Classroom Discussions
- 1 Guiding Principles for Using Classroom Discussion (p. 11)
- 2 Preparing Teachers for Current and Controversial Issue Discussion (p. 27)
- 3 Supporting Civic Discussions With Younger Students (p. 44)
- Part II Unpacking Well-Known Discussion Techniques in the Social Studies
- 4 Socratic Seminar: Learning With and From Each Other Interpreting Complex Text (p. 63)
- 5 Structured Academic Controversy: What It Can Be (p. 73)
- 6 Structure Matters: Comparing Deliberation and Debate (p. 90)
- 7 Document-Based Discussions in History: Orienting Students to the Discipline (p. 106)
- 8 Embedding Discussion Throughout Inquiry (p. 124)
- Part III Expanding Toward More Equitable Discussions
- 9 Talking Politics Online: Educating for Online Civic and Political Dialogue (p. 143)
- 10 The Structures We Live In: Discussing Racialization of Neighborhoods to Transform the Null Curriculum (p. 161)
- 11 Get Out of Your Own Way: Sharing Power to Engage Students of Color in Authentic Conversations of Social Inequity (p. 176)
- 12 Supporting Youth to Engage in Authentic Civic Dialogue in Our "Actually Existing" Democracy (p. 192)
- Concluding Thoughts (p. 209)
- Appendix A Pledge of Allegiance Mini Unit (p. 215)
- Appendix B Ticket to Pledge Seminar (p. 217)
- Appendix C Pledge Discussion Guide (p. 219)
- Appendix D The Pledge of Allegiance Supreme Court Cases (p. 223)
- Appendix E You Be the Judge: Frazier v. Winn (p. 225)
- About the Editor and Contributors (p. 229)
- Index (p. 235)
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