Facilitating Contentious Conversations in Your Classroom, with Mylien Duong

Mylien Duong discusses strategies for facilitating contentious conversations in your classroom on episode 532 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We were never really trained to have these difficult conversations. We were not really trained as instructors to facilitate these conversations.
-Mylien Duong

It is not realistic to not prepare our students to be civically engaged and be able to engage and work with people who are different from them who don’t share the same beliefs that they do.
-Mylien Duong

My goal is to help students to fully understand students, to help them clarify their own thinking, and to ensure and to help them communicate that to the rest of the class.
-Mylien Duong

Resources

• Constructive Dialog Institute
• Foundations in Facilitating Dialog Course
• Maintaining Campus Community During the 2024 Election: A Guide for Leaders, Faculty, and Staff, by Mary Aviles & Mylien Duong, PhD
• Successful classroom discussions begin long before anyone speaks for Times Higher Education, by Mylien Duong and Jacob Fay
• Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, by Stephen D. Brookfield
• Use Perplexity AI to Evaluate Health Information
• Cyclic sighing