All students, not just those from marginalized groups, seem more eager to enter energetically into classroom discussion when they perceive it as pertaining directly to them.”
—bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
All students, not just those from marginalized groups, seem more eager to enter energetically into classroom discussion when they perceive it as pertaining directly to them.”
—bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
"Our discipline has so many avenues into a fruitful conversation with students: primary sources, images, “what-if” questions, debates, exploration of difficult, controversial, or morally and ethically complex issues. But those conversations can’t happen if only one party participates. The key question for so much of our teaching, then, is what do we do when discussion dies?"
Kevin Gannon, Faculty Focus, 2018.
Jennifer Gonzalez offers 15 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging. Gonzalez has separated the strategies into three groups:
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It is the cultivation of the capacity to listen that is central to the practice of dialogue.”
—Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?