When Elizabeth A. Bennion asked students in her political-controversies course to discuss gun control, the conversation could have dissolved into fractious debate. Her class included strong supporters and staunch opponents of gun-control legislation.<\/p>\n
Equipping the class with readings and a list of gun-control measures, Ms. Bennion, a political-science professor at Indiana University at South Bend, asked the students to devise a policy. The catch? They were divided into groups that deliberately had both proponents and adversaries of gun control.<\/p>\n
When they were forced to seriously consider an opposing view and to listen to their classmates\u2019 concerns, Ms. Bennion says, students were able to move beyond rhetoric and arrive at a reasonable compromise. “What\u2019s amazing,” she says, is “every team ends up with multiple policy changes on which they agree.”<\/p>\n
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