Additional Resources
This page includes a selection of podcast and webinar recordings, teaching cases, and manuals that support educators dealing with controversy while aiming for equity, justice, and democracy in classrooms and schools.
Podcasts and Webinars
The following links lead to recordings as well as additional relevant resources.
Deliberative dialogues | Visions of Education
In this podcast, I discuss with Dan Krutka and Michael Milton my recent article, “Deliberative dialogues with preservice teachers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa using a gradient of controversy approach” published in Theory & Research in Social Education.
Teaching controversies | Past Times - Talking and Teaching History | EuroClio
In this podcast, I discuss with Andreas Holtbergert my teaching and research at two teacher education programs in South Africa and a paper I presented at Utrecht University in the Netherlands on student teacher agency in handling planned and unplanned controversy.
Division to Dialogue: Teaching Social Studies in Polarizing Times | inquirEd
In this webinar, hosted by Martin Andrews, I discuss with Ashley McCall and Liz Robbins strategies for fostering inquiry and dialogue as well as getting support for teachers amid political division and other challenges.
Contained risk-taking strategies for divided societies | Peace Education Hub, Sarajevo
This is an edited version from a webinar for educators working in a variety of settings in Bosnia-Herzegovina hosted by the Peace Education Hub at the University of Sarajevo.
Play it safe or take a risk | Education for Sustainable Democracy
In this podcast, I discuss with Brett Levy tradeoffs when making decisions about how to approach teaching controversial issues.
Selected Teaching Cases
The cases here are being used as instructional tools for superintendents and other school leaders. Based on interviews, they deal with real controversies and other political challenges confronting schools and districts committed to equity work.
Culture Wars in Seaview Public Schools
The cases here are being used as instructional tools for superintendents and other school leaders. Based on interviews, they deal with real controversies and other political challenges confronting schools and districts committed to equity work.
Culture Wars in Seaview Public Schools
Teacher Manuals and Guides
This guide offers practical tools for teachers fostering inquiry and discussion about the troubled, contested, and sensitive past in the post-Yugoslav region. It can be used in both preservice and in-service settings. Sections address navigating emotions and trauma, designing a lesson, maintaining a supportive environment for discussion, reflecting after lessons, and dealing with conflict with parents.
Dialogue in the Classroom | Mismatch This set of short guides includes specific strategies for setting up a supportive classroom environment for classroom dialogue and addressing challenges that may arise.
Teaching controversial issues | Council of Europe
This training pack was created to support and promote teaching controversial issues for democratic citizenship and human rights in Europe. It draws on relevant scholarship and provides guidance and tools for teachers.
This article contains many resources with guidance, specific tools, and strategies from various sources to help with "fostering respectful and productive conversations, both online and off."