Using Debate in the Classroom: Encouraging Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration

✍ Scribed by Karyl Davis, M. Leslie Wade Zorwick, James Roland, Melissa Maxcy Wade

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 179
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

ebate holds enormous potential to build 21st century skills such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution in the K-12 classroom, but teachers often struggle to implement and contextualize it effectively. Using Debate in the Classroom draws on research from a variety of academic disciplines to explain the benefits of debate across subject areas, and describes how teachers can use debate to enliven their curriculum and support the aims of the Common Core. Topics include:

Introducing debate as a pedagogical practice to engage students, improve school culture, and disrupt the school to prison pipeline.
Using debate to teach critical literacy and improve students’ reading, writing, and speaking skills.
Implementing role-playing techniques to strengthen information literacy and reasoning skills.
Building students’ empathy, perspective-taking skills, and cultural humility as they confront difficult social issues through debate.
Appendices provide a variety of tools to assist K-12 teachers in implementing debate in the classroom, including ready-made debate activities, student handouts, and a step-by-step guide to introducing students to debate in just one week.

✦ Table of Contents

Using Debate in the Classroom - Front Cover
Using Debate in the Classroom
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
An Introduction to Classroom Debate: A Tool for Educating
Minds and Hearts
An Introduction to Classroom Debate: A Tool for Educating
Minds and Hearts
What Is Debate Education?
An Introduction to Classroom Debate: A Tool for Educating
Minds and Hearts
Benefits of Debate Education
An Introduction to Classroom Debate: A Tool for Educating
Minds and Hearts
Conclusion
An Introduction to Classroom Debate: A Tool for Educating
Minds and Hearts
References
Chapter 1: Take No Prisoners: The Role of Debate in a Liberatory Education
Chapter 1: Take No Prisoners: The Role of Debate in a Liberatory Education
References
Chapter 2: Resolved: Debate Disrupts the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Chapter 2: Resolved: Debate Disrupts the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: What It Is, Who It Impacts, and How It Fails Students and Schools
Chapter 2: Resolved: Debate Disrupts the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Debate as a Strategy for Disrupting the Pipeline
Chapter 2: Resolved: Debate Disrupts the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Resolved: Debate Disrupts the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Note
References
Chapter 3: Evaluating Contradictory Evidence
Chapter 3: Evaluating Contradictory Evidence
What Is Higher-Ordered Thinking?
Chapter 3: Evaluating Contradictory Evidence
What Is the Connection Between Higher-Ordered Thinking and Debate?
Chapter 3: Evaluating Contradictory Evidence
How Do You Teach Evidence Evaluation?
Chapter 3: Evaluating Contradictory Evidence
Concluding Thoughts
References
Chapter 4: Making Words Matter: Critical Literacy, Debate, and a Pedagogy of Dialogue
Chapter 4: Making Words Matter: Critical Literacy, Debate, and a Pedagogy of Dialogue
What Is Critical Literacy and What Is the Connection Between Literacy and Debate?
Chapter 4: Making Words Matter: Critical Literacy, Debate, and a Pedagogy of Dialogue
How Do Urban Debate Leagues Teach Empowering Literacy?
Chapter 4: Making Words Matter: Critical Literacy, Debate, and a Pedagogy of Dialogue
What Can We Learn From the Urban Debate League Movement About Building Critical Literacy Capacity?
Chapter 4: Making Words Matter: Critical Literacy, Debate, and a Pedagogy of Dialogue
How Can Debate Solve Some of the Current Problems With the Teaching of Literacy Skills?
Chapter 4: Making Words Matter: Critical Literacy, Debate, and a Pedagogy of Dialogue
What Have I Learned From a Decade of Watching Debaters?
Chapter 4: Making Words Matter: Critical Literacy, Debate, and a Pedagogy of Dialogue
References
Chapter 5: Discerning the Value of Information in the Digital Age
Debate as More Than Disagreement
The Need to Manage Information: The Importance of New Media Skills
Chapter 5: Discerning the Value of Information in the Digital Age
Debate as Information Education
Chapter 5: Discerning the Value of Information in the Digital Age
Debate as Curation
Chapter 5: Discerning the Value of Information in the Digital Age
Debate as Role Playing
Chapter 5: Discerning the Value of Information in the Digital Age
Debate as a Way to Teach Information Literacy and Meet Common Core State Standards
Chapter 5: Discerning the Value of Information in the Digital Age
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Discerning the Value of Information in the Digital Age
References
Chapter 6: Engendering Academic Success: Debate as a School Engagement Strategy
Chapter 6: Engendering Academic Success: Debate as a School Engagement Strategy
Emotional Engagement
Chapter 6: Engendering Academic Success: Debate as a School Engagement Strategy
Behavioral Engagement
Chapter 6: Engendering Academic Success: Debate as a School Engagement Strategy
Cognitive Engagement
Chapter 6: Engendering Academic Success: Debate as a School Engagement Strategy
Debate and Academic Outcomes
Chapter 6: Engendering Academic Success: Debate as a School Engagement Strategy
Concluding Thoughts
References
Chapter 7: Using Debate to Improve Scientific Reasoning
Chapter 7: Using Debate to Improve Scientific Reasoning
Avoiding False Scientific Controversy in Debate
Chapter 7: Using Debate to Improve Scientific Reasoning
Debate as a Parallel to the Scientific Method
Chapter 7: Using Debate to Improve Scientific Reasoning
Debate as a Tool to Teach Scientific Practice
Chapter 7: Using Debate to Improve Scientific Reasoning
Implementing Science Debate
Chapter 7: Using Debate to Improve Scientific Reasoning
Debate as a Powerful Science Teaching Tool
Chapter 7: Using Debate to Improve Scientific Reasoning
References
Chapter 8: Critical Thinking through Debate: Skills, Dispositions, and Teaching Strategies
Chapter 8: Critical Thinking through Debate: Skills, Dispositions, and Teaching Strategies
What Is Critical Thinking and How Should It Be Taught?
Chapter 8: Critical Thinking through Debate: Skills, Dispositions, and Teaching Strategies
Debate as Critical Thinking Pedagogy: Alignments With the Critical Thinking Literature
Chapter 8: Critical Thinking through Debate: Skills, Dispositions, and Teaching Strategies
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Critical Thinking through Debate: Skills, Dispositions, and Teaching Strategies
References
Chapter 9: Using Debate to Develop Perspective Taking and Social Skills
Chapter 9: Using Debate to Develop Perspective Taking and Social Skills
Empathy
Debate Develops Perspective Taking Skills
Chapter 9: Using Debate to Develop Perspective Taking and Social Skills
The Benefit of Perspective Taking Skills
Chapter 9: Using Debate to Develop Perspective Taking and Social Skills
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Using Debate to Develop Perspective Taking and Social Skills
References
Chapter 10: Creating Hospitable Communities: Remembering the Emanuel 9 as We Foster a Culture of Humility and Debate
Chapter 10: Creating Hospitable Communities: Remembering the Emanuel 9 as We Foster a Culture of Humility and Debate
Emanuel AME Church: The Freedom House That Hate Attacked
Chapter 10: Creating Hospitable Communities: Remembering the Emanuel 9 as We Foster a Culture of Humility and Debate
Social Media: Can the Medium Truly Be Social If We Ignore the Other?
Chapter 10: Creating Hospitable Communities: Remembering the Emanuel 9 as We Foster a Culture of Humility and Debate
Cultural Humility: Learning From Others
Chapter 10: Creating Hospitable Communities: Remembering the Emanuel 9 as We Foster a Culture of Humility and Debate
Debate and the Power of Play
Chapter 10: Creating Hospitable Communities: Remembering the Emanuel 9 as We Foster a Culture of Humility and Debate
Conclusion
Chapter 10: Creating Hospitable Communities: Remembering the Emanuel 9 as We Foster a Culture of Humility and Debate
References
Appendices
Appendix A: Common Myths/Concerns About Debate in the Classroom
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Appendix B: Empowering Students to L.E.A.R.N. – Core Debate Skill Set
Appendix C: Designing a Lesson Plan Using Debate in the Classroom
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Appendix D: Introducing Debate in One Week
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Appendix E: Potential Debate Activities and Examples
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Appendix F: Got a Problem, Got a Solution Handout
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Appendix G: Speech/Debate Template
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Appendix H: Critical Thinking/Reading Comprehension Handout
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Appendix I: Developing Your Ideas – Making an Argument
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Appendix J: Debate M&Ms (Me and Mind Exercise)
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Appendix K: Assessment and Evaluation
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Appendix L
Appendices
Appendix M: List of Online Resources
List of Contributors
Index