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Debate

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Debates as a teaching tool can be traced back to ancient Greece, with the Sophists, Protagoras, and Aristotle as the earliest pioneers (Vo & Morris, 2006). Today, debates exist in countless forms in any society, ranging from government debates, court...

Debate At-A-Glance

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In a classroom debate, a proposition is stated and students make arguments for or against it. Want examples of a Debate? Check out the ABLConnect Database Want to learn more about research on Debate in the classroom? Click here! Why should you facilitate...

The Galileo Debate

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In this simulation, students become familiar with the arguments used by different players in the debates about Galileo. For this course, there were five different discussion sections. Each section was assigned in advance to one of five positions...

War Guilt Clause Debate

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Each student is assigned to a country and asked to represent that country's views in a simulated debate to represent the War Guilt Clause negotiations at Versailles. The students prepare for the debate by doing the readings with their country's...

Legality of Torture Debate

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In History of Science course "Brainwashing and Modern Techniques of Mind Control," students participate in a role play to debate the legality of torture and other types of coercive interrogation. One of the graduate student teaching fellows sends out the...

Should Human Genes Be Patentable?

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In this activity, students will have an opportunity to debate current controversial issues in biotechnology from the point of view of a stakeholder group. Goal: Engage in discourse regarding the ethical nature of specific scientific innovations. Class...

1923 Role Play

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In this activity, students debated topics in science and technology from the perspective of a stakeholder during a particular period in 20th century American history. While this structure was used for all three debates, this posting will draw from one...

Micropolitan Dialogue

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Through this activity, students were challenged to think critically about the rhetoric which drove the events of the Peloponnesian war. Activity: Micropolitan Dialogue Goal/s: The goal of the Micropolitan Dialogue was to have students think critically...

Practicing the Rhetoric of Thomas More

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After reading Thomas More’s Utopia, students debate topics related to the text in order to understand More’s use of rhetoric. Before class, students are asked to think about several statements, i.e. "Higher education does not advance the goals of the...

Explaining Political Attitudes

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Assigned debates work well for weeks where several competing theoretical approaches are covered. This debate involves competing theories on approaches to explaining political attitudes. The steps for the assigned debate are as follows: - The section...