July 16, 2008

'Intergroup Dialogue' Promoted as Using Racial Tension to Teach

By Peter Schmidt

Colleges struggle to get students of different races and genders to learn from one another. Now several major colleges are promoting a teaching method that deliberately stirs up conflict in the classroom to expose students to different perspectives.

The institutions, including several flagship universities, plan to train 30 other colleges in the approach, known as "intergroup dialogue," this month at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. They also have undertaken a long-term

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