Teaching About Controversial Topics Led by Dr. Diana Hess

This hour-long virtual professional development session (recorded) for social studies educators addresses the following questions  – and more:

  • What is the relationship between controversial topics, problems, and issues?
  • What are controversial political issues?
  • What is the difference between an open and a settled issue, and an empirical and a policy issue?
  • Why should we include controversial political issues in the school curriculum?
  • What are key best practices about teaching young people to engage in discussions or deliberations of controversial political issues?

Presenter – Dr. Diana Hess, Dean of Education at the University of Wisconsin, co- author of The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education and author of Controversy in the Classroom: The Democratic Power of Discussion

Host – Joe Schmidt, Social Studies Specialist at the Maine Department of Education

Source

The Maine Department of Education - Social Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT021uiMWZM&feature=youtu.be

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