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Tag Archives: self-correction

Straighten up and fly right: Making dialogue work

December 11, 2018by Michelle Leave a comment

Does dialogue work to harmonise conflicting views, or does it simply entrench differences? According to extensive research in the psychology of polarised opinion, the answer is discouraging: when people of […]

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Friendly excursions into disequilibrium

November 11, 2018by Michelle 2 Comments

I’ve been progressively building the argument that we educators need to help our students move beyond relativism, and towards an evaluativist level of understanding. But how can we achieve this? […]

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