学校がもっと意見の対立を経験する機会を作るべき理由 | マーク・ウリスタ | TEDxCorvallis

リンベントン・コミュニティ・カレッジでスピーチコミュニケーションを教えるマーク・ウリスタは、学校は生徒が建設的に意見を対立させる機会をもっと増やすべきだと主張しています。彼はこの大学の市民対話プログラムを率いており、そこでは構造化された対話と討論を通じて分断を招きやすい問題を検討しています。彼は、意見の違いと上手に向き合う力が次世代に教えるべき最も重要でありながら見過ごされがちなスキルだと考えています。この講演は独立して運営されたTEDxイベントで行われました。

• 意見の違いと上手に向き合う力は教えられるスキルであること
• 大学での構造化された対話と討論の実践
• 分断ではなく相互理解を築くこと

Mark Urista is a Speech Communication faculty member at Linn-Benton Community College with more than 20 years of teaching experience. He leads LBCC’s Civil Discourse Program, which engages students and community members in conversations about polarizing issues. He also helped establish the college’s Cornerstone Program, where students read and discuss influential texts while sharing and challenging different interpretations. Mark has completed fellowships with UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and the College Debates & Discourse Alliance. He has also developed and contributed curricular resources to national civil discourse efforts. Through initiatives including Vanderbilt University’s Dialogue CoLab, Mark has collaborated with faculty and administrators across the country. Mark serves on the steering committee for Braver Angels’ Mid-Willamette Valley Alliance and the Board of Trustees at Ashbrook Independent School. He holds an M.A. in Communication from the University of the Pacific and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley. Mark Urista helps students and communities learn how to disagree in ways that build understanding rather than create division. At Linn-Benton Community College, he teaches Speech Communication and leads a Civil Discourse Program that uses structured dialogue and debate to explore complex, often polarizing issues. He has completed fellowships with UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and the College Debates & Discourse Alliance, contributing to national efforts to strengthen constructive dialogue. He also serves on the steering committee for Braver Angels’ Mid-Willamette Valley Alliance. The son of a conservative father from a working-class family who served in the U.S. Army and a progressive mother from an upper-middle-class family who was a schoolteacher, Mark has navigated disagreement across differences since childhood. He believes that learning to disagree well is one of the most important and overlooked skills we can teach the next generation. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx