Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms

The second edition of this comprehensive guide shows how to plan, conduct, and assess classroom discussions. Authors Brookfield and Preskill include exercises for starting discussions, strategies for maintaining their momentum, ways to elicit diverse views and voices, and much more. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition includes new exercises, as well as new material on the intersections between discussion and the complicating factors of gender and race.