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The Discussion Book

by Stephen D. Brookfield, Stephen Preskill

January 2016

Beginner

288 pages

3h 48m

English

Jossey-Bass

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The Zen of Protocols—You Have to Plan for SpontaneitySpicing It Up—An Energetic BlendModeling Your Commitment—Walking the TalkTo the Techniques!
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to this Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Most Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique

PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It Works—Appreciative PauseHow It Works—Sticky Note PlauditWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When This Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It's Worked WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit These Protocols
PurposesHow It WorksWhen and Where It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhen and Where It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhen and Where It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksAn Abridged VersionWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions that Fit this Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Technique
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions Suited to This Activity
PurposesHow It WorksWhere and When It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Suit This Protocol
PurposesHow It WorksWhen and Where It Works WellWhat Users AppreciateWhat to Watch Out ForQuestions That Fit This Protocol

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Chapter 39

Titling the Text

This exercise promotes peoples' serious engagement with a piece of writing. Instead of having to summarize key ideas they suggest titles for the text (which is left deliberately untitled).

Purposes

To give people practice in reading, analyzing, and discussing a text very closely
To identify the main ideas in a text and to justify their selection

How It Works

Participants are given a short untitled article of about seven hundred words—roughly the length of a typical op-ed column—to read on their own.
Individually they make a few notes about the main idea of the article and think about a possible title for the article.
In groups of five or six, each member proposes a title and describes how this reflects the ...