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Debate as Global Pedagogy: Rwanda Rising illustrates that the teaching of debate offers an ideal educational approach for the prevention and remediation of genocide. As the antithesis of propaganda, debate and argument instruction promotes the critical thinking necessary to resist processes of propaganda that enable injustice and human rights abuses. Case studies of argumentation instruction and deliberative forums worldwide demonstrate how environments of discursive complexity can be fostered through education in debate and argumentation. The central example of Rwanda recovering from genocide in 1994 with help from innovative pedagogy by iDebate Dreamers Academy provides a model for how argumentation instruction can reduce and prevent social injustices.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Communication Roots of Injustice and Genocide and Rwanda as a Model
Chapter 1: Darkness before the Dawn of the 21st Century--Rwanda 1994
Chapter 2: Discursive Complexity and the Global Renaissance for Justice
Chapter 3: Debate Training in Rwanda among security forces
Chapter 4: Deconstructing Anti-Colonialism and Anti- Imperialism as Jacobin Predicates of Violence
Chapter 5: Debate as Pedagogical Empowerment at HBCUs in the United States
Chapter 6: The Global Ecological Museum and the Climate Debate
Chapter 7: Rwanda Rising: Rwanda as a Global Model for Success
Chapter 8: Guatemala Rising with the Creative Peace Process
Chapter 9: China Rising: Debate programs across China
Chapter 10: Debate as a global empowerment tool for ending Injustice and Genocide
Chapter 11: Coolidge Debate Pedagogy: Learning how to speak and debate
Chapter 12: Conclusions--How Debate Helps the Global Human Community
