Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ496966
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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Discussing Controversial Topics in the Classroom: Creating a Context for Learning.
Lusk, Amy B.; Weinberg, Adam S.
Teaching Sociology, v22 n4 p301-08 Oct 1994
Maintains that efforts to initiate classroom discussions of controversial topics often provoke uncomfortable silence. Describes a classroom exercise that encourages students to analyze from a sociological perspective classroom dynamics that make discussion difficult. (CFR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Social Science Research, Sociology, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Student Participation, Student Subcultures, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Audience: Teachers; Researchers; Practitioners
Language: English
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