The Dialogic Classroom in Higher Education: Revolutionary Listening for Curiosity, Engagement, and Deep Learning [Hardcover]

The Dialogic Classroom in Higher Education is a step-by-step guide to leveraging Reflective Structured Dialogue as a pivotal pedagogical tool to boost student curiosity, engagement, and content acquisition.

Learning environments where students are engagedwith instructors, with each other, and with course contentare carefully crafted spaces where listening to understand and speaking to be understood are community norms. Blending rich data with the diverse classroom experiences of the co-authors, this book introduces readers to the theory and practice of dialogic pedagogy and charts a path for creating Dialogic Classrooms that are effective and adaptable.

A nuts-and-bolts guide to better listening, speaking, and engagement in college classrooms, this book is a go-to resource for faculty looking to foster robust, interesting, and brave educational spaces.

The Dialogic Classroom was co-created with Essential Partners, the pioneers of Reflective Structured Dialogue.?Essential Partners is a non-profit based in Cambridge, MA, USA.

The Dialogic Classroom in Higher Education?is a step-by-step guide to leveraging Reflective Structured Dialogue as a pivotal pedagogical tool to boost student curiosity, engagement, and content acquisition.

Jill DeTemple is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University, USA.

Harriett (Betsy) E. Hayes is Dean of the Rhodes School of Arts and Humanities and Associate Professor of Sociology at Bridgewater College, USA.

Jennifer Ellis West is Associate Professor of English and Director of Core Writing at Samford University, USA.

1. Structuring for Listening: Foundations of the Dialogic Classroom  2. Why Listening? Shifting ClÓê