Elements of discussion

Discussion is distorting today. Within schools, social movements, and firms, there has been an increasing tendency for teachers and facilitators to announce that there will be a discussion while the interaction which follows this announcement is not a discussion, but something else, likely a recitat...

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Main Author Backer, David I. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., [2016]
SeriesCritical constructions.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806610617
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-282-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xi, 139 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Chairs
  • Chapter 2. Tables
  • Chapter 3. How Did You Get To This Discussion?
  • Chapter 4. What Discussion Is and Is Not: Recitation. Chapter 5
  • Be Early
  • Chapter 6. "Hi"
  • Chapter 7. Here We Are
  • Chapter 8. Check-in
  • Chapter 9. Bodies
  • Chapter 10. Written and Oral Discussion
  • Chapter 11. Online Discussion
  • Chapter 12. Physical Activity
  • Chapter 13. The Living Silence.
  • Chapter 14. Questions
  • Chapter 15. Collective Questioning
  • Chapter 16. The First Silence
  • Chapter 17. The Second Silence
  • Chapter 18. Your Eyes
  • Chapter 19. The General Rule of Silences
  • Chapter 20. Notes
  • Chapter 21. Make Your Voice A Mixtape
  • Chapter 22. Freedom
  • Chapter 23. The White Man
  • Chapter 24. Different Kinds of Quiet People
  • Chapter 25. Discussion and Deliberation
  • Chapter 26. Mmmmmm
  • Chapter 27. Repair
  • Chapter 28. Be Unsure
  • Chapter 29. Facilitator/Participant
  • Chapter 30. One Person Is A Universe
  • Chapter 31. Openness
  • Chapter 32. Discussion Over Time
  • Chapter 33. A Good Rule
  • Chapter 34. Proper Names
  • Chapter 35. "I Learned A Lot From What You Said"
  • Chapter 36. Food
  • Chapter 37. Equality
  • Chapter 38. Language
  • Chapter 39. Talking Sticks and Bells
  • Chapter 40. Turn vs. Comment
  • Chapter 41. The Average Game
  • Chapter 42. Counting
  • Chapter 43. Making Decisions
  • Chapter 44. Discussion as Democracy
  • Chapter 45. What Discussion Is and Is Not: Dialogue
  • Chapter 46. What Discussion Is and Is Not: Socratic
  • Chapter 47. Discussion and Conversation
  • Chapter 48. "Sharing Ideas". Chapter 49. Be Aware of the Time. Chapter 50. Get Exuberant Once or Twice
  • Chapter 51. Pause
  • Chapter 52. Knowing the Stakes
  • Chapter 53. Therapy
  • Chapter 54. When Things Boil
  • Chapter 55. Sexism
  • Chapter 56. Facilitator Power
  • Chapter 57. English
  • Chapter 58. Discipline
  • Chapter 59. Other Theories
  • Chapter 60. Fairy Tale Tennis Ball
  • Chapter 61. Remembering Game
  • Chapter 62. Emotional Social Contract
  • Chapter 63. Tangents
  • Chapter 64. Comment Game
  • Chapter 65. Debrief
  • Chapter 66
  • Discussing Discussion
  • Reading List
  • Author Bio.