Notes:

"What conditions inhibit dialogue and what measures can be taken to overcome them? How teachers maintain the pace of the discussion, how they use questioning and listening to engage students in probing subject matter, and how they group students for instruction all affect how the discussion proceeds and how motivated the students are to participate in similar discussions in the future." Excerpt from Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms, 2nd Edition, by Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill. 

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