Through dialogic education, students active listening skills and disposition can increase. Letting students talk together provide a foundation for this, but it is not enough. In order to promote active listening, focus on students connecting their speaking with prior speakers, ask them to repeat or paraphrase each others’ statements and summarize what has been said by the group.
Active listening skills among the students are very valuable both for the students’ learning themselves, but also for the well-being of all peers, who feel listened to, respected and taken seriously when their peers listen actively. It leads to pro-social behavior, increased learning, better relations in school, among other things. All this heavily promotes student-wellbeing.
See Reznitskaya & Wilkinson (2017). The Most Reasonable Answer. Harvard University Press for more information.