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ERIC Number: EJ247355
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981
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The Dreaded Discussion: Ten Ways to Start.
Frederick, Peter
Improving College and University Teaching, v29 n3 p109-14 Sum 1981
Techniques for initiating good discussion in class include: examining goals and values, noting concrete images in text, generating questions among students, finding illustrative quotations, small group discussion, generating truth statements, forced debates, role playing, non-structured scene-setting, and eliciting opinoins of the text. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Debate, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education, Questioning Techniques, Role Playing, Small Group Instruction, Teaching Methods, Values Clarification
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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