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Constructivist Listening & World Cafe
I am new to the community and excited to post and offer this article. I teach at Presidio Graduate School (formerly Presidio School of Management) in San Francisco and we have had the pleasure of working with Nancy Margulies the last three semesters.
I teach a class about strengths-based personal awareness & development and team collaboration from a communication perspective. The World Cafe is a perfect process for both the "how" and the "what" of what we teach in this course.
Nancy suggested that I share this article I've written with the community, as Constructivist listening dyads can be very useful in priming a group to make the most of the World Cafe experience. I teach this process to my students each semester and we practice during class and in between by using the dyad process to reflect upon and explore course content and related experiences. The practice both helps students to become more present and better listeners and also helps one to reflect more deeply for constructing knowledge. It also works well for a one time event such as a World Cafe, facilitation or training workshop.
The article I'm attaching is from an instructor or consultant's perspective for anyone wanting to use this process in an educational or professional environment. It is shared with the permission of the publisher (Kendall-Hunt) and will be published as a chapter in an E-Book very soon on "Best Practices in Experiential & Service Learning in Communication".
I teach a class about strengths-based personal awareness & development and team collaboration from a communication perspective. The World Cafe is a perfect process for both the "how" and the "what" of what we teach in this course.
Nancy suggested that I share this article I've written with the community, as Constructivist listening dyads can be very useful in priming a group to make the most of the World Cafe experience. I teach this process to my students each semester and we practice during class and in between by using the dyad process to reflect upon and explore course content and related experiences. The practice both helps students to become more present and better listeners and also helps one to reflect more deeply for constructing knowledge. It also works well for a one time event such as a World Cafe, facilitation or training workshop.
The article I'm attaching is from an instructor or consultant's perspective for anyone wanting to use this process in an educational or professional environment. It is shared with the permission of the publisher (Kendall-Hunt) and will be published as a chapter in an E-Book very soon on "Best Practices in Experiential & Service Learning in Communication".
Tags: "Communication, Experiential, Presidio, Service-learning, attention, best practice, constructivism, dyads, listening, presence, More…
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Permalink Reply by John Inman on -
Gayle, thank you for the paper. I downloaded and will certainly read. Also recommend Conversational Learning by Kolb and a doctoral team. Outstanding book on conversation as experiential learning. I wish you the best.
John
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Permalink Reply by Gayle Yamauchi-Gleason on -
Dear John-
Thanks for this suggestion! I do follow Kolb and haven't hear of this one. I'll look it up.
Sincerely,
Gayle
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Permalink Reply by juanita brown on
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Hi to you,
thanks so much for this article. As you may know, the World Cafe is based on constructivist theory...so it's great to see this contribution as well.
With warm regards,
Juanita
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Permalink Reply by Gayle Yamauchi-Gleason on
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Yes, I knew there was a reason why I resonated with the World Cafe practice/process :-)
FYI, we have gotten permission from the publisher (Kendall-Hunt) of the resource book that this chapter is in to post the chapter in the World Cafe resource area if you are interested. This was the original suggestion from Nancy Margulies after having seen me introduce Constructivist Listening to my students prior to our in-class World Cafe.
Gayle
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That would be great-- you can contact Amy Lenzo (she's listed here) who can help that happen.
Best,
Juanita
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