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Book Synopsis
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.

Table of Contents
  • Contents
  • Foreword  Diana E. Hess  vii
  • Acknowledgments  xi
  • Introduction  Jane C. Lo  1
  • Part I: Engaging in Classroom Discussions
  • 1.  Guiding Principles for Using Classroom Discussion  11
  • Bruce E. Larson
  • 2.  Preparing Teachers for Current and Controversial Issue Discussion  27
  • Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Mary Ellen Daneels, and Noorya Hayat
  • 3.  Supporting Civic Discussions With Younger Students  44
  • Terence A. Beck
  • Part II: Unpacking Well-Known Discussion Techniques in the Social Studies
  • 4.  Socratic Seminar: Learning With and From Each Other While Interpreting Complex Text  63
  • Jada Kohlmeier
  • 5.  Structured Academic Controversy: What It Can Be  73
  • Walter C. Parker
  • 6.  Structure Matters: Comparing Deliberation and Debate  90
  • Paula McAvoy and Arine Lowery
  • 7.  Document-Based Discussions in History: Orienting Students to the Discipline  106
  • Abby Reisman
  • 8.  Embedding Discussion Throughout Inquiry  124
  • María del Mar Estrada Rebull, Chauncey Monte-Sano, Amanda Jennings, and Jeff Kabat
  • Part III: Expanding Toward More Equitable Discussions
  • 9.  Talking Politics Online: Educating for Online Civic and Political Dialogue  143
  • Erica Hodgin
  • 10.  The Structures We Live In: Discussing Racialization of Neighborhoods to Transform the Null Curriculum  161
  • Jacob S. Bennett, H. Richard Milner IV, and Bryant O. Best
  • 11.  Get Out of Your Own Way: Sharing Power to Engage Students of Color in Authentic Conversations of Social Inequity  176
  • Dane Stickney, Elizabeth Milligan Cordova, and Carlos P. Hipolito-Delgado
  • 12.  Supporting Youth to Engage in Authentic Civic Dialogue in Our "Actually Existing" Democracy  192
  • Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia
  • Concluding Thoughts  209
  • Jane C. Lo
  • Appendix A: Pledge of Allegiance Mini Unit  215
  • Appendix B: Ticket to Pledge Seminar  217
  • Appendix C: Pledge Discussion Guide  219
  • Appendix D: The Pledge of Allegiance Supreme Court Cases  223
  • Appendix E: You Be the Judge: Frazier v. Winn  225
  • About the Editor and Contributors  229
  • Index  235

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      Publisher: Teachers' College Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/01/2022
      ISBN13: 9780807766644, 978-0807766644
      ISBN10: 080776664X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      • Contents
      • Foreword  Diana E. Hess  vii
      • Acknowledgments  xi
      • Introduction  Jane C. Lo  1
      • Part I: Engaging in Classroom Discussions
      • 1.  Guiding Principles for Using Classroom Discussion  11
      • Bruce E. Larson
      • 2.  Preparing Teachers for Current and Controversial Issue Discussion  27
      • Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Mary Ellen Daneels, and Noorya Hayat
      • 3.  Supporting Civic Discussions With Younger Students  44
      • Terence A. Beck
      • Part II: Unpacking Well-Known Discussion Techniques in the Social Studies
      • 4.  Socratic Seminar: Learning With and From Each Other While Interpreting Complex Text  63
      • Jada Kohlmeier
      • 5.  Structured Academic Controversy: What It Can Be  73
      • Walter C. Parker
      • 6.  Structure Matters: Comparing Deliberation and Debate  90
      • Paula McAvoy and Arine Lowery
      • 7.  Document-Based Discussions in History: Orienting Students to the Discipline  106
      • Abby Reisman
      • 8.  Embedding Discussion Throughout Inquiry  124
      • María del Mar Estrada Rebull, Chauncey Monte-Sano, Amanda Jennings, and Jeff Kabat
      • Part III: Expanding Toward More Equitable Discussions
      • 9.  Talking Politics Online: Educating for Online Civic and Political Dialogue  143
      • Erica Hodgin
      • 10.  The Structures We Live In: Discussing Racialization of Neighborhoods to Transform the Null Curriculum  161
      • Jacob S. Bennett, H. Richard Milner IV, and Bryant O. Best
      • 11.  Get Out of Your Own Way: Sharing Power to Engage Students of Color in Authentic Conversations of Social Inequity  176
      • Dane Stickney, Elizabeth Milligan Cordova, and Carlos P. Hipolito-Delgado
      • 12.  Supporting Youth to Engage in Authentic Civic Dialogue in Our "Actually Existing" Democracy  192
      • Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia
      • Concluding Thoughts  209
      • Jane C. Lo
      • Appendix A: Pledge of Allegiance Mini Unit  215
      • Appendix B: Ticket to Pledge Seminar  217
      • Appendix C: Pledge Discussion Guide  219
      • Appendix D: The Pledge of Allegiance Supreme Court Cases  223
      • Appendix E: You Be the Judge: Frazier v. Winn  225
      • About the Editor and Contributors  229
      • Index  235

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