At this week's Round Table, Inica, Isaiah, Madeline, and guest podcaster Jack Flanigan spoke with Eric Torres, a doctoral student at Harvard School of Education, about promoting dialogue across political differences but with a switch--this time our guest asked questions of us instead of the other way around. We talked about the state of civil discourse in and outside of classrooms, what it takes for dialogue to be productive rather than argumentative, and concerns about the absence of facts in too many of these conversations or, as I put it, how “every one is an expert on everything without actually knowing anything.” We all agreed that productive political dialogue in schools is almost an oxymoron and that building students’--and teachers’--skills around engaging in hot button dialogue would be very, very valuable. Thank you for joining us!
