Week Seven: Creating Common Ground
Our second summer 2021 series is focusing on the challenges and opportunities facing those who are seeking to reunite our divided nation. In this final week of our series, we consider the question of what we can do as individuals to lower the political temperature and help restore civility to American public discourse.
For a possible answer, we turn to University of Michigan Political Science Professor Arthur Lupia whose 2018 “Teach Out” offers a Practical Framework for Creating Common Ground. The link below takes you directly to the core of Professor Lupia’s three-step method for moving beyond partisanship and getting past polarization to hold more successful conversations on important issues. If his approach resonates with you, you may want to look at the larger 4-module series from Michigan Online from which this material was excerpted.
The video at the link below runs 7 minutes.