ABSTRACT The article criticizes certain subjectivist and isolationist stances on controversial issues, and construes the teaching of controversial issues as an interpersonal task. On this view the teacher (1) encourages students to enter into the perspectives of others; (2) establishes points of contact which make reasoned discourse possible; and (3) inducts students into a wider domain where they are provided with knowledge about controversies as well as the skills for handling those controversies. All of this requires considerable intervention on the part of the teacher. Current doubts about such intervention are unjustified. Copyright © 1992, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
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DEWHURST, D. W. (1992). The Teaching of Controversial Issues. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 26(2), 153–163. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1992.tb00277.x
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