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A pathway to community, growth, and change
This collection of inclusive essays explores the role of debate in understanding and critiquing injustice and inequality. Edited by Shawn F. Briscoe, these essays closely examine multiple approaches to debate, considering their respective merits and controversies. This detailed compilation analyzes how debate methodologies are useful in everyday life and whether certain approaches have any value at all.
Briscoe provides an in-depth look into the varying styles of debate and contributes to a greater understanding of argument theory by discussing three stylistic approaches: audience-centered, technical/progressive, and non-traditional/performative. The book demonstrates that all three approaches offer students opportunity to engage in a socioemotional learning space, a discipline that prepares students for undergraduate and graduate work, a study that prepares participants for future careers, and a field that investigates current controversies and how to tackle them. Briscoe offers compelling narratives from BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and women authors that explore the personal impact of debate on social equality within this academic discipline, our educational system, and society.
The diversity in gender and race of the contributing authors allows for a multitude of perspectives on the complex styles, benefits, and issues discussed in Transcending the Game. Briscoe peels back the mystery that shrouds the benefits of academic, competitive debate from outsiders and insiders alike. A myriad of personal narratives tell stories about the role of debate in their lives; challenge the unproductive discourse in debate, education, and society; and offer diverse insight into why we debate.
Contents
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Prologue: The Moment that Changed My Life
Section One: The Nature of Competitive Debate
1. Debate and Disinformation
2. Truth, A Casualty of Intellectual Warfare?
3. Finding Home
4. Putting Debate Skills to Work
Section Two: Audience-Centered Debate
5. Inspired Learning
6. Debate and the College Experience
7. Around the World and Back Again
8. Policy Debate in a Post-Modern Society
Section Three: Progressive Debate
9. Defending Policy Debate
10. Debate as a Framework for Business
11. Engaging Each Other on the Merits of Our Arguments
12. A Mother's Journey from Debate to the NICU
Interlude: Classrooms of Compassion
Section Four: Nontraditional Debate
13. The Constant Pursuit for Inclusivity
14. Living Inupiat Storytelling in Four Generations of Family
15. Defining Black Cards
16. Ship of Faith
17. A Tool for Career Readiness
Section Five: Power in Our Voices
18. In It Together
19. The Debater
Contributors
About the Author
Bibliography
Glossary
