{"id":19302,"date":"2025-03-04T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/home\/?p=19302"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:18:48","slug":"even-kids-can-learn-to-discuss-meaningful-issues-respectfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/home\/even-kids-can-learn-to-discuss-meaningful-issues-respectfully\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Kids Can Learn to Discuss Meaningful Issues Respectfully"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-blockquote uagb-block-e7eb3fc3 uagb-blockquote__skin-border uagb-blockquote__stack-img-none\"><blockquote class=\"uagb-blockquote\"><div class=\"uagb-blockquote__content\">Researchers at Ohio State University are pioneering a new social studies curriculum that teaches fourth graders essential civic skills, encouraging productive discourse and critical thinking from a young age.<\/div><footer><div class=\"uagb-blockquote__author-wrap uagb-blockquote__author-at-left\"><\/div><\/footer><\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b0ffac9c wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><div style=\"font-size:16px\" class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-post-author\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\">The University Network<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-social-share uagb-social-share__outer-wrap uagb-social-share__layout-horizontal uagb-block-ee584a31\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-social-share-child uagb-ss-repeater uagb-ss__wrapper uagb-block-ec619ce7\"><span class=\"uagb-ss__link\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"facebook\"><span class=\"uagb-ss__source-wrap\"><span class=\"uagb-ss__source-icon\"><svg xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\"><path d=\"M504 256C504 119 393 8 256 8S8 119 8 256c0 123.8 90.69 226.4 209.3 245V327.7h-63V256h63v-54.64c0-62.15 37-96.48 93.67-96.48 27.14 0 55.52 4.84 55.52 4.84v61h-31.28c-30.8 0-40.41 19.12-40.41 38.73V256h68.78l-11 71.69h-57.78V501C413.3 482.4 504 379.8 504 256z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-social-share-child uagb-ss-repeater uagb-ss__wrapper uagb-block-32d99934\"><span class=\"uagb-ss__link\" data-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"twitter\"><span class=\"uagb-ss__source-wrap\"><span class=\"uagb-ss__source-icon\"><svg xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\"><path d=\"M389.2 48h70.6L305.6 224.2 487 464H345L233.7 318.6 106.5 464H35.8L200.7 275.5 26.8 48H172.4L272.9 180.9 389.2 48zM364.4 421.8h39.1L151.1 88h-42L364.4 421.8z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-social-share-child uagb-ss-repeater uagb-ss__wrapper uagb-block-1d136f14\"><span class=\"uagb-ss__link\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"linkedin\"><span class=\"uagb-ss__source-wrap\"><span class=\"uagb-ss__source-icon\"><svg xmlns=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\"><path d=\"M416 32H31.9C14.3 32 0 46.5 0 64.3v383.4C0 465.5 14.3 480 31.9 480H416c17.6 0 32-14.5 32-32.3V64.3c0-17.8-14.4-32.3-32-32.3zM135.4 416H69V202.2h66.5V416zm-33.2-243c-21.3 0-38.5-17.3-38.5-38.5S80.9 96 102.2 96c21.2 0 38.5 17.3 38.5 38.5 0 21.3-17.2 38.5-38.5 38.5zm282.1 243h-66.4V312c0-24.8-.5-56.7-34.5-56.7-34.6 0-39.9 27-39.9 54.9V416h-66.4V202.2h63.7v29.2h.9c8.9-16.8 30.6-34.5 62.9-34.5 67.2 0 79.7 44.3 79.7 101.9V416z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In today\u2019s polarized society, the ability to discuss and argue respectfully is more critical than ever. A new study from researchers at The Ohio State University offers hope for the future by suggesting that even young children can be taught to engage in productive, respectful discourse about meaningful problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study focused on a social studies curriculum for fourth graders designed to teach what researchers called &#8220;civic competencies.&#8221; Over the school year, students who participated in the curriculum displayed significant improvements in their argumentation skills and disciplinary thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis will give them the ability to collaborate, communicate effectively and consider multiple perspectives,\u201d co-author Tzu-Jung Lin, a professor of educational psychology at Ohio State, said in a news release. \u201cWe aim to help cultivate a new generation of responsible community members and citizens who can work together to help solve complex issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research article, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/23522798241301436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">published<\/a> in the Journal of Social Studies Research, involved 106 fourth-grade students and six social studies teachers from two public school districts in the Columbus area. The curriculum, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalciviclearning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Digital Civic Learning (DCL)<\/a>, was developed at Ohio State with the goal of nurturing critical thinking and conflict resolution skills in young students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStudents as young as elementary school start to encounter important issues in the world around them that don\u2019t have a right or wrong answer,\u201d Lin added. \u201cWhat we are trying to do with the DCL curriculum is to teach children the process to be a better thinker about these issues and learn how to resolve conflicts around them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Central to the curriculum is the concept of disciplinary thinking, which teaches students to read, write and think from the perspectives of different academic disciplines \u2014 geography, economics, history and civics. This method allows students to approach problems as professionals in these fields would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen students learn disciplinary thinking, they learn how professionals in each of these four disciplines approach a problem,\u201d added co-author Haeun Park, a doctoral student in educational psychology at Ohio State. \u201cAnd later in the curriculum, students learn how to use all of those types of thinking in an interdisciplinary way. For example, students may learn to think about a specific problem from an economics point of view, but also from the view of an historian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The curriculum also focused on developing students\u2019 argumentation skills. Through classroom activities, students practiced crafting arguments and counterarguments using their newfound disciplinary thinking skills. They engaged with stories about real-world challenges, such as access to healthy, affordable food in a food desert, to hone their problem-solving abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese stories are designed to be real-life problems that don\u2019t have a set answer,\u201d added co-author Kevin Fulton, a doctoral student in educational psychology at Ohio State. \u201cThe students can bring their own perspectives to the conversation, and they can agree on all the facts and disagree on what a good solution looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To measure the effectiveness of the DCL curriculum, the researchers had students write essays on relevant and meaningful problems at the start and end of the school year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results were telling: 43% of the students scored 3 out of 4 or above on claim-evidence integration in their essays by the end of the course, up from 27% at the beginning. Similarly, use of disciplinary thinking increased from 27% to 48%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such findings give researchers hope that teaching these civic competencies early can help mend societal fractures in the long run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe believe that if we can embrace these civic competencies, we can find common ground, even with our different beliefs and different backgrounds,\u201d Lin concluded. \u201cWe can still work together as a group to solve our problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.osu.edu\/teaching-kids-how-to-become-better-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The Ohio State University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s polarized society, the ability to discuss and argue respectfully is more critical than ever. 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