This book is written for all university and college teachers interested in experimenting with discussion methods in their classrooms.Discussion as a Way of Teaching is a book full of ideas, techniques, and usable suggestions on how to prepare students and teachers to participate in discussion, how to get discussion started, how to keep discussions going, and how to ensure that teachers' and students' voices are kept in some sort of balance.

Discussion As a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for University Teachers

Education & Teaching

Brookfield, Stephen D.

Preskill, Stephen

Minnesota

Paul, St.

Schools & Teaching

Open Univ Pr

This book introduces critical thinking, looks at general ways in which people can be helped to become critical thinkers and reviews opportunities for developing critical thinking in specific contexts.

Developing Critical Thinkers: Challenging Adults to Explore Alternative Ways of Thinking and Acting for Laureate

Knox, Alan B.

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass

praise for previous books by stephen d. brookfield "Award-winning author Stephen Brookfield offers insight, inspiration, and down-to-earth advice to all teachers in settings as diverse as college, adult education, and secondary schools―on how to thrive on the unpredictability of classroom life."―Better Teaching "The author [relates] some of his own personal experiences as an educator in encouraging critical thinking. His insight and honesty in relating these experiences is valuable and interesting."―CBE Report "Brookfield's book will serve as an effective focus that can facilitate faculty in thinking critically about their work, their community, their relationships, not only individually but collaboratively."―Teaching Sociology "He offers clear, jargon-free, and unpretentious guidance." ―Reference &amp; Research Book News "The author is so darned good at finding and highlighting the key research." ―Training "Brookfield illustrates practically his major scholarly interest in this readable, innovative, and perceptive book on college teaching."―Choice

Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions

1996 Winner of the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education "[Brookfield] gently demystifies critically reflective learning and teaching with dozens of practical examples from the classroom in different scholarly fields. Lucid, wise, jargon-free, personal and fluently written. Required reading for educators of adults everywhere and for all faculty development programs." -- Jack Mezirow, emeritus professor of adult education, Teachers College, Columbia University Building on the insights of his highly acclaimed earlier work, The Skillful Teacher, and applying the principles of adult learning, Brookfield thoughtfully guides teachers through the processes of becoming critically reflective about teaching, confronting the contradictions involved in creating democratic classrooms, and using critical reflection as a tool for ongoing personal and professional development.

Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

1999 Critics' Choice Selection of the American Educational Studies Association 
In this guide to planning, conducting, and evaluating lively discussions, authors Stephen Brookfield and Stephen Preskill offer a variety of practical ideas, tools, and techniques for creating democratic classrooms. They suggest exercises to get discussion started, strategies for maintaining its momentum, ways to elicit a diversity of views and voices, ideas for creative groupings and formats, and processes to encourage student participation. In exploring the role of the teacher in discussion, they address the tensions and possibilities arising from ethnic, cultural, social class, and gAnder differences. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize how discussion fosters democratic participation and enhances learning. Additionally, they review how to balance the voices of students and teachers, while still preserving the moral, political, and pedagogic integrity of discussion. From the early stages of preparing students to participate in discussion to the final stages of evaluating its meaning and effects, the authors provide a comprehensive guide to realizing the promises--and avoiding the pitfalls--of this way of teaching. Each chapter contains numerous techniques, suggestions, and applications that can be adapted to a wide range of discussion settings. Sample exercises and formats are provided throughout, including case studies of successful practices. Discussion as a Way of Teaching is an accessible, practical resource for teachers, trainers, faculty, administrators, professional developers, facilitators, and other educational leaders. It will be useful to anyone who uses discussion to help people learn.

Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms

The Power of Critical Theory is Brookfield’s attempt to put the “critical” back into critical thinking by emphasizing that it is an inherently political process. The book presents powerful arguments for the importance of critical theory in fostering the kind of learning that leads to a truly democratic society, and it explores a number of tasks for adult learners including learning to challenge ideology, contest hegemony, unmask power, overcome alienation, learn liberation, reclaim reason, and practice democracy.

The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching

This book offers a systematic look at the connections between learning and leading and the use of learning to inspire and organize for change. It explores two interrelated dimensions of learning leadership: the ways leaders themselves learn about leadership practice, and the way leaders foster the learning of those they work with. The book focuses on a number of important leadership activities and adopts a case study approach to illuminate how leaders themselves learn, how they impart knowledge to others, and how they support others in becoming more effective and enduring learners.

Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the landmark book Discussion as a Way of Teaching shows how to plan, conduct, and assess classroom discussions. Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill suggest exercises for starting discussions, strategies for maintaining their momentum, and ways to elicit diverse views and voices. The book also includes new exercises and material on the intersections between discussion and the encouragement of democracy in the classroom. This revised edition expands on the original and contains information on adapting discussion methods in online teaching, on using discussion to enhance democratic participation, and on the theoretical foundations for the discussion exercises described in the book. Throughout the book, Brookfield and Preskill clearly show how discussion can enliven classrooms, and they outline practical methods for ensuring that students will come to class prepared to discuss a topic. They also explain how to balance the voices of students and teachers, while still preserving the moral, political, and pedagogic integrity of discussion.

The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom

In this second edition of the book that has become a classic in the field, award-winning author Stephen D. Brookfield offers inspiration and down-to-earth advice to new and seasoned teachers. The Skillful Teacher is a comprehensive guide that shows how to thrive on the unpredictability and diversity of classroom life and includes insights developed from the hundreds of workshops conducted by the author. This new edition also reflects the many changes that have come about in the decade since the book was first published and includes new chapters that deal with emerging topics such as classroom diversity and teaching in online learning environments.

The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, And Responsiveness in the Classroom

1986 Winner of the Imogene Okes Award and the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education 
The first book to receive both the Imogene Okes Award and the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education presented by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education. This book analyzes current approaches to adult learning and presents a comprehensive review of the research on how adults learn.

Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning: A Comprehensive Analysis of Principles and Effective Practices (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

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Discussion As a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for University Teachers

Developing Critical Thinkers: Challenging Adults to Explore Alternative Ways of Thinking and Acting for Laureate

Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions

Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms

The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching

Learning as a Way of Leading: Lessons from the Struggle for Social Justice

Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms

The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, And Responsiveness in the Classroom

Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning: A Comprehensive Analysis of Principles and Effective Practices (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)