The Value of Academic Discourse (eBook, ePUB)

Conversations That Matter
Redaktion: Miranda, Twyla; Herr, Jeffrey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How important is academic discourse that promotes new understandings and allows us to question what we know? In the current age of instant-messaging and Twitter®, does academic conversation have a place? Frankly, we think that academic discourse is more important now than ever.
Our civil society functions best when students, instructors, neighbors, and communities come together to question the information before us, so that decisions and directions are viable, helpful, and ethical. Academic conversations help us sort through the important and not-so-important themes of our lives and how we are to live. Academic conversations show us other ways of viewing, and they grow our own repertoire of ideas. Academic conversations teach us wonder, tolerance, humility, and the important fact that the world is bigger than our backyard.
Understanding the art and pragmatism of academic conversations requires a building of trust, a willingness to share, and a mind for critical thinking. Guidance for holding conversations with meaning and doing philosophy with learners is modeled, as well as how implementing classroom and collegial discourse benefits our society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475838541
• Artikelnr.: 49986202

Autorenporträt

Twyla T. Miranda serves as professor in the School of Education at Texas Wesleyan University. Her work in education has involved teaching children, young adults and adults, using the interplay of trust, dialogue, and critical thinking about topics that matter to learners. Jeffrey Herr serves as associate professor of Education in the department of Philosophy, Economics, and Teacher Education at Tarrant County College (South Campus). His research interests include Philosophy for Children and communities of inquiry, hip-hop education, and achieving student engagement through alternative forms of instruction.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Jeffrey Herr Acknowledgements Introduction Twyla T. Miranda and
Jeffrey Herr Part I: Defining and Understanding Academic Discourse Chapter
1: The Socratic Method Jeremy Byrd and Miriam Byrd Chapter 2: Dialogue as
Experience Nakia S. Pope Chapter 3: Refining the Discourse of
Collaboration: An Art Student's Perspective Travis Austin Part II: Students
and Teachers, Talking and Listening Together Chapter 4: Dilemmas Matter:
Promoting Reflective Engagement with Early Adolescents Jeffrey Herr Chapter
5: Charrette as Context and Process for Academic Discourse in Contemporary
Higher Education: A Case Study Hilary Hughes Chapter 6: A Modified Oxford
Tutorial: Doctoral Students Respond Twyla T. Miranda Chapter 7: Empower to
be Empowered: Listening to the Student Voice Kenneth R. Austin Part III:
Professional Discourse, Authentic Conversations Chapter 8: Modeling
Conversations that Matter: How Dialogue Between Faculty and Administration
Can Impact Culture, Practice, and Student Success Shane Naterman and
Maryann Felps Chapter 9: The Missing Voice of Teachers in the National
Reform Movement Penny Armstrong Chapter 10: Inner Dialogue: Reflections of
Three Effective Educators Twyla T. Miranda Index About the Editors About
the Contributors