Serial Arguments in Classrooms

• In Event: Students' Perceptions of the Development of Supportive and Civil Classroom Climates

Abstract

Serial arguing has mainly been studied in the context of close relationships. This study generalizes those theories and findings to the context of classrooms. Resolvability is positively associated with classroom climate and arguers’ civility. Approach and avoidance motives predict the degree to which a range of arguers’ goals come into play, and the goals predict the tactics in use. The tactics, in turn, predict resolvability, climate, and civility.

Authors

• Dale Hample, University of Maryland

• Benjamin Krueger, University of Maryland