Café Conversations (UK)
About This Teaching Strategy
Students need an awareness of different perspectives in order to understand past events. The Café Conversation strategy helps students practise perspective-taking by requiring them to represent a particular point of view in a small-group discussion. By engaging in a conversation with people who represent other backgrounds and experiences, students become more aware of the role that many factors (e.g. class, occupation, gender, age) play in shaping one’s attitudes and perspectives on historical events. Use the Café Conversations activity as an assessment tool or to prepare students to write an essay about a specific historical event or text.
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