When a topic can be broken down easily into different components participants can become familiar with one specific and then teach others about it.
Purposes
To show how discussion can be used to develop group expertise on a topic
To invite participants to become experts by teaching topics to each other
To experience two very different discussion dynamics—one in which people learn together and one in which they teach each other
How It Works
A relatively large group decides to study a topic that lends itself to being broken down into five or six subtopics.
Small groups of five or six form around each subtopic. The number of participants in each group should be the same as the number of subtopics.
In the first “expert” ...
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