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Shireen Al-Adeimi; Jennie Baumann – Language and Education, 2025
Despite its importance for students' learning, engaging students in dialogic discussions, especially about controversial, justice-oriented topics, can be difficult for U.S. teachers to enact due to current political constraints. In this study, we explore how three middle school teachers engaged their students in curriculum-embedded discussions on…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse
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Yuchen Shi; Zihong Zhang; Shu Cao; Qunying Liu – Language and Education, 2024
Dialogic teaching -- in which teachers and students address controversial issues -- has become increasingly common in school education to promote civic participation in deliberative democracy. This study addresses this question: when leading whole-class discussions on controversial issues, what discursive moves could teachers adopt to enact…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Elementary School Students, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Intervention