While on a recent family vacation, I had the “opportunity” to watch a couple hours of cable TV news/commentary. By which I mean that I lost the coin toss with my spouse over which of us would accompany our over-excited… Read More »
Monthly Archives: August 2010
False Dichotomies and the IF Discussion Process
The Uses of Diversity
“Diversity” no longer means what it did to my parents’ generation. Rather than simple “variety” the word now means something more like “a mixture of important social categories”—hence the demand that we “Respect diversity” means something like “Recognize the importance… Read More »
We Are the Books our Students Read Most Closely
How might educators teach students to engage as active participants and facilitators in student-centered discussions? How might contemporary higher education classrooms become places for the discovery and social construction of alternative ways of thinking and acting in regard to complex… Read More »
A Fractal View of Exploratory Discussion
A fractal is a unique kind of fraction—one that reproduces the form or shape of the thing it’s a part of. Since the concept was first described, fractals have been found in lots of places, some of them quite unexpected. … Read More »
Ia Natsvlishvili Uses the IF Discussion Process in her Classroom in Tbilisi, Georgia
Ia Natsvlishvili was a participant in the 50-Hour Training Course in the IF Discussion Process that IF Fellows Mark Notturno and Ieva Notturno conducted in Washington DC last Spring for Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) scholars. After… Read More »
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