Additional Info:
Offers a variety of practical ideas, tools, and techniques for creating democratic classrooms. The authors suggest exercises to get discussion started, strategies for maintaining its momentum, ways to elicit a diversity of views and voices, ideas for creative groupings and formats, and processes to encourage student participation. In exploring the role of the teacher in discussion, they address the tensions and possibilities arising from ethnic, cultural, social class, and gender difference. Throughout, they emphasize how discussion fosters democratic participation and enhances learning, and they review how to balance the voices of students and teachers. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Preface
Gratitudes
The Authors

ch. 1 Discussion in a Democratic Society
ch. 2 How Discussion Helps Learning and Enlivens Classrooms
ch. 3 Preparing for Discussion
ch. 4 Getting Discussion Started
ch. 5 Keeping Discussion Going Through Questioning, Listening, and Responding
ch. 6 Keeping Discussion Going Through Creative Grouping
ch. 7 Discussion in Culturally Diverse Classrooms
ch. 8 Discussing Across Gender Differences
ch. 9 Keeping Students' Voices in Balance
ch. 10 Keeping Teachers' Voices in Balance
ch. 11 Evaluating Discussion

References
Index