What's the Point in Discussion?

This highly practical new approach to discussion promotes the enhanced creativity of those involved, to achieve maximum results from discussion groups of all types. The book shows how to design discussion tasks to teach: * Problem solving * Creativity * Decision making * Attitude change * Interpersonal skills From this, the author shows the discussion techniques by which these aims can be achieved, arguing that teachers and trainers should 'begin with simple tasks in small groups for short periods of time, gradually increasing their complexity, time and duration'. When applied across a full range of discussion methods, this principle extends the scope, the success and the enjoyment of learning by discussion. Promoting the ideal of a 'thinking society', which this approach is designed to encourage, the book is complete with informative diagrams showing a wide variety of ways for arranging discussion groups, in order to teach different kinds of thinking.