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ADVANTAGES
- Heightens learner’s interest
- Builds participants understanding for the topic in question
- Members pool knowledge and ideas in the cooperative task of endeavoring to understand a problem by learning from one another.
- Allows a two way communication
- People tend to work more intensely while in a group
- Group judgments may sometimes be accurate than those resulting from individual examinations of problems.
- Conflicts/ disagreement which emerge in a heated discussion group may be starting points for critical thinking and new exploration.
- Leads to increased tolerance of varying points of view.
- Enables a class and teachers to know one another thoughts, opinions and attitudes
- Provides for the teacher a useful feedback, where the discussion has centered on the content of previous lessons.
- Has positive effect on communication and problems solving skills.
DISADVANTAGES OF DISCUSSION GROUP
- Unless the topic is carefully chosen and the session structured and controlled the discussion may degenerate into an informal debate from which a dominant hierarchy of star speakers emerge.
- This leads to more forceful members holding the floor whole others become silent observes, which negates the very purpose for the discussion.
- Because some members are readily dominated, false conclusions, presentation in a persuasive manner by a member on whom the group over-depends may be accepted too easily.
- A discussion may deteriorate into forum for the exchange of prejudices, so that it resembles an athletic contest with closed mind.
- Since discussion is less structured and certain then lecturing it may provoke anxiety in predisposed learners and interfere with their learning.
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