{"product_id":"the-value-of-academic-discourse-9781475838459","title":"The Value of Academic Discourse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow important is academic discourse that promotes new understandings and allows us to question what we know? In the current age of instant-messaging and Twitter, does academic conversation have a place? Frankly, we think that academic discourse is more important now than ever. Our civil society functions best when students, instructors, neighbors, and communities come together to question the information before us, so that decisions and directions are viable, helpful, and ethical. Academic conversations help us sort through the important and not-so-important themes of our lives and how we are to live. Academic conversations show us other ways of viewing, and they grow our own repertoire of ideas. Academic conversations teach us wonder, tolerance, humility, and the important fact that the world is bigger than our backyard. Understanding the art and pragmatism of academic conversations requires a building of trust, a willingness to share, and a mind for critical thinking. Guidance for ho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a panoramic consideration of how dialogue enhances teaching and learning. The editors have selected a broad range of contributors whose thoughtful reports reveal historical and practical dimensions of dialogic pedagogy. Teachers will benefit from a careful reading of this volume. -- Ira Shor, critical theorist \u0026amp; pedagogist, author, and professor at College of Staten Island, CUNY\u003cbr\u003eAll universities claim that a part of our mission is to develop students into informed global citizens. The Value of Academic Discourse: Conversations That Matter reminds us how we do it and provides excellent examples of both style and substance. This is how higher education changes the world by changing lives one student at a time. -- Fred Slabach, president, Texas Wesleyan University\u003cbr\u003eThe influence of new media and technologies on our conversations make this book a powerful reminder that the art of conversation and academic dialogue are as important as ever, if not more so. In an era when the expediency of technology and new media appear to be taking over the classroom experience and creating questions about its purpose, the authors remind us that active or experiential learning begins with a classroom, synchronous and otherwise, designed around robust academic discourse. -- Peter Jordan, president, Tarrant County College, South Campus\u003cbr\u003eThis is an important book, especially since it comes out at the time when our society is struggling to have informed, rational, and respectful conversations about the issues that are crucial to our well-being, if not to our existence. The Value of Academic Discourse: Conversations That Matter encourages us to take a fresh look at the power of talk to help us understand ourselves, each other, and the world we live in. -- Alina Reznitskaya, professor of education, Montclair State University\u003cbr\u003eDiscourse matters, and in educational settings, what matters more are the structure, context and facilitation of our shared discourse. The Value of Academic Discourse: Conversations that Matter not only helps make this clear, it offers insights into how to make the most of our discursive opportunities. -- Joe Oyler, lecturer in teacher education, Maynooth University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Jeffrey Herr Acknowledgements  Introduction  Twyla T. Miranda and Jeffrey Herr Part I: Defining and Understanding Academic Discourse Chapter 1: The Socratic Method  Jeremy Byrd and Miriam Byrd   Chapter 2: Dialogue as Experience Nakia S. Pope   Chapter 3: Refining the Discourse of Collaboration:  An Art Student’s Perspective        Travis Austin   Part II: Students and Teachers, Talking and Listening Together  Chapter 4: Dilemmas Matter:  Promoting Reflective Engagement with Early Adolescents  Jeffrey Herr   Chapter 5: Charrette as Context and Process for Academic Discourse in Contemporary Higher Education:  A Case Study   Hilary Hughes  Chapter 6: A Modified Oxford Tutorial:  Doctoral Students Respond Twyla T. Miranda Chapter 7: Empower to be Empowered: Listening to the Student Voice Kenneth R. Austin Part III: Professional Discourse, Authentic Conversations Chapter 8: Modeling Conversations that Matter:  How Dialogue Between Faculty and Administration Can Impact Culture, Practice, and Student Success  Shane Naterman and Maryann Felps Chapter 9: The Missing Voice of Teachers in the National Reform Movement Penny Armstrong Chapter 10: Inner Dialogue: Reflections of Three Effective Educators  Twyla T. Miranda  Index About the Editors About the Contributors","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040253673815,"sku":"9781475838459","price":71.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475838459.jpg?v=1750946172","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-value-of-academic-discourse-9781475838459","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}