Full Description
Debate 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.
Contents
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
