Let's Discuss: Second-Language Learners Share Ideas (Student Edition)
We all wonder what the future holds. Some people are satisfied to simply wait and see what happens. Others understand that they can play a major role in shaping their own future — they don’t have to sit back and let it happen to them. Building your own future means making many decisions — some small and others big. Some decisions affect only our own lives, while others involve our community, our country, or even the entire world.
In history classes, we learn about the decisions individuals and nations made in the past and the consequences of those decisions. In other social studies classes, we examine the decisions that became laws and continue to shape how people live today in our local area and across the country. However, we often don’t have time in these classes to consider decisions about the future. How might the choices and decisions we live with today be different? How could they be improved?
With this book, students have an opportunity to think about these decisions — for themselves and together with their classmates. The book encourages students to begin with topics they choose, whether it’s a decision about their personal future or one that affects their community, their country, or the world. For each decision, students will be encouraged to think carefully and deeply, both individually and collaboratively, sharing ideas and exploring answers to questions that will help them make the best possible decisions — decisions that can help build a better future.
Deanna Kuhn
Deanna Kuhn is a professor of psychology and education at Columbia Teachers College. She is a cognitive and educational psychologist, and a member of the National Academy of Education.
Her primary concern is with how best to educate students to prepare them for their adult roles in the workplace, and in their personal lives as life-long learners and as citizens. She is a leading expert in the promotion of dialog to develop students’ critical thinking and writing skills.
Deanna’s work has been published widely in publications ranging from Psychological Review to Harvard Educational Review. Her books include: Education for Thinking, The Skills of Argument, The Development of Scientific Thinking Skills, Argue with Me: Argument as a Path to Developing Students’ Thinking and Writing.
Her most recent book, Building our Best Future: Thinking Critically About Ourselves and Our World, is written directly to middle and secondary students. The text uses peer dialog to develop verbal and written skills of argument and critical thinking.
| Format | ISBN | List Price | Wessex Website Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Softcover | 978-1-7375287-8-4 | $ 19.70 USD | $ 19.70 USD |
| E-Book | 978-1-7375287-9-1 | N/A | $ 19.70 USD |