2023 - Full Presentation Schedule
Toward promoting Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom and Beyond
Abstract
This paper reports on a project, sponsored by the Office of Sponsored Awards and Research Support, designed to explore the concept of Difficult Dialogues, as well as coordinating one on campus as a pilot for ongoing efforts in this domain.
This session will briefly review the project efforts from the fall semester during which a campus conversation was orchestrated to explore students’ perceptions of our community and wicked problems confronting our world. The project did not go according to plan, leading the research team to make adjustments and seek new paths to exploring their key questions. The research assistant asked other students about the ways in which they engage in community, what they identify as barriers to community cohesion, and potential paths for progress.
Challenges with orchestration as well as the student responses eventually solicited will be shared. This student-led effort faced, continuation of conversational opportunities should be prioritized as participants learn the importance of community engagement while simultaneously acting as participants in community building. As the student research has graduated, the professor associated with the project will lead the discussion.
Following the report on the initial research efforts, this session will move on explore the concept of Difficult Dialogue as applied to higher education classroom conversations and skill development for students living in an age of hyperbolic rhetoric in social media, news media, and even from our national leaders.
Students and faculty alike are invited to participate. While this particular discussion should not be difficult, we will focus on strategies for overtly and intentionally enabling challenging conversations in the classroom and beyond
Toward promoting Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom and Beyond
CASB 102 - Education and Learning
This paper reports on a project, sponsored by the Office of Sponsored Awards and Research Support, designed to explore the concept of Difficult Dialogues, as well as coordinating one on campus as a pilot for ongoing efforts in this domain.
This session will briefly review the project efforts from the fall semester during which a campus conversation was orchestrated to explore students’ perceptions of our community and wicked problems confronting our world. The project did not go according to plan, leading the research team to make adjustments and seek new paths to exploring their key questions. The research assistant asked other students about the ways in which they engage in community, what they identify as barriers to community cohesion, and potential paths for progress.
Challenges with orchestration as well as the student responses eventually solicited will be shared. This student-led effort faced, continuation of conversational opportunities should be prioritized as participants learn the importance of community engagement while simultaneously acting as participants in community building. As the student research has graduated, the professor associated with the project will lead the discussion.
Following the report on the initial research efforts, this session will move on explore the concept of Difficult Dialogue as applied to higher education classroom conversations and skill development for students living in an age of hyperbolic rhetoric in social media, news media, and even from our national leaders.
Students and faculty alike are invited to participate. While this particular discussion should not be difficult, we will focus on strategies for overtly and intentionally enabling challenging conversations in the classroom and beyond