Contents
Foreword? Diana E. Hess? vii
Acknowledgments? xi
Introduction? Jane C. Lo? 1
Part I: Engaging in Classroom Discussions
1.? Guiding Principles for Using Classroom Discussion? 11
Bruce E. Larson
2.? Preparing Teachers for Current and Controversial Issue Discussion? 27
Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Mary Ellen Daneels, and Noorya Hayat
3.? Supporting Civic Discussions With Younger Students? 44
Terence A. Beck
Part II: Unpacking Well-Known Discussion Techniques in the Social Studies
4.? Socratic Seminar: Learning With and From Each Other While Interpreting Complex Text? 63
Jada Kohlmeier
5.? Structured Academic Controversy: What It Can Be? 73
Walter C. Parker
6.? Structure Matters: Comparing Deliberation and Debate? 90
Paula McAvoy and Arine Lowery
7.? Document-Based Discussions in History: Orienting Students to the Discipline? 106
Abby Reisman
8.? Embedding Discussion Throughout Inquiry? 124
María del Mar Estrada Rebull, Chauncey Monte-Sano, Amanda Jennings, and Jeff Kabat
Part III: Expanding Toward More Equitable Discussions
9.? Talking Politics Online: Educating for Online Civic and Political Dialogue? 143
Erica Hodgin
10.? The Structures We Live In: Discussing Racialization of Neighborhoods to Transform the Null Curriculum? 161
Jacob S. Bennett, H. Richard Milner IV, and Bryant O. Best
11.? Get Out of Your Own Way: Sharing Power to Engage Students of Color in Authentic Conversations of Social Inequity? 176
Dane Stickney, Elizabeth Milligan Cordova, and Carlos P. Hipolito-Delgado
12.? Supporting Youth to Engage in Authentic Civic Dialogue in Our ?Actually Existing? Democracy? 192
Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia
Concluding Thoughts? 209
Jane C. Lo
Appendix A: Pledge of Allegiance Mini Unit? 215
Appendix B: Ticket to Pledge Seminar? 217
Appendix C: Pledge Discussion Guide? 219
Appendix D: The Pledge of Allegiance Supreme Court Cases? 223
Appendix E: You Be the Judge: Frazier v. Winn? 225
About the Editor and Contributors? 229
Index? 235