1st Edition
Using Debate in the Classroom Encouraging Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration
Foreword
John Sexton
Preface
Melissa Maxcy Wade
Acknowledgements
An Introduction to Classroom Debate: A Tool for Educating Minds and Hearts
Karyl A. Davis, M. Leslie Wade Zorwick, James Roland, and Melissa Maxcy Wade
1. Take No Prisoners: The Role of Debate in a Liberatory Education
Brittney Cooper
2. Resolved: Debate Disrupts the School to Prison Pipeline
Catherine Beane
3. Evaluating Contradictory Evidence
Jon Bruschke
4. Making Words Matter: Critical Literacy, Debate, and a Pedagogy of Dialogue
Susan Cridland-Hughes
5. Discerning the Value of Information in the Digital Age
Gordon Stables
6. Engendering Academic Success: Debate as a School Engagement Strategy
Carol Winkler
7. Using Debate to Improve Scientific Reasoning
Freddi-Jo Eisenberg Bruschke
8. Critical Thinking through Debate: Skills, Dispositions, and Teaching Strategies
W. Patrick Wade
9. Using Debate to Develop Perspective Taking and Social Skills
M. Leslie Wade Zorwick
10. Creating Hospitable Communities: Remembering the Emanuel 9 as We Foster a Culture of Humility and Debate
Ed Lee and Ajay Nair
Appendices
James Roland
Contributors
Biography
Karyl A. Davis directs communications for the Glenn Pelham Foundation for Debate Education and is the owner and principal creative of the consulting firm kd Alice Communications.
M. Leslie Wade Zorwick is Associate Professor of Psychology at Hendrix College.
James Roland is Senior Director of Community Programs and Engaged Scholarship at the Barkley Forum Center for Debate Education at Emory University.
Melissa Maxcy Wade is President of the Glenn Pelham Foundation for Debate Education.
"Using Debate in the Classroom proves that the art of evidence-based argumentation through debating can change a student's life. The authors take a deep and thoughtful approach to helping us better understand the necessity for the cross-curricular application of evidence-based argumentation. This book makes clear how debating can serve as a primary tool for students to gain the 21st century skills necessary to break down barriers, overcome challenges, and build the drive and motivation necessary for achievement." –J. Scott Wunn, Executive Director, National Speech and Debate Association
“This is it -- an introduction to classroom debate that will forever change pedagogy! We learn in this volume that debate is for all disciplines, science to literature. We learn that it is the antidote to socially mediated conformity and prejudice. Critical thinking and social engagement in a poly-cultural environment is its outcome. Moreover, the appendix is a ‘how-to’ manual for making it happen. No one can read this book and not be transformed.” --E. Culpepper Clark, Dean Emeritus, Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
