The Importance of listening

United States, 1975

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Episode number 2 of Series “Discussing Controversial Issues”.
If a discussion is to be useful it is essential to listen. The onus to keep the discussion going is on both the moderator and the participants. The moderator should: Summarise ideas and restore issues. The participants should: Listen to the other person’s ideas, acknowledge others’ ideas, question relevance. The case represented in this film is a discussion between black and white high school students and a white policeman concerning a fatal police shooting of a black man. The film uses this topic to illustrate skills of keeping a discussion on track (as a mediator) and relating participants’ comments and questions to each other.

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director

Richard Murison

co-producer

Barbara Dunning

Meredith D. Gall

production company

Educational Research and Development and Teacher Education

Far West Laboratory

Duration

00:19:35:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1975

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Discussing Controversial Issues

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Discussing Controversial Issues

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