Frontiers of the 21st century argumentation, debate and the struggle for a civil society ; proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 International Debate Education Association conference [i.e., conferences] in Turkey and Estonia (International Debate Education Assoc., 2008)
Papers from the 2004 and 2005 IDEA conferences
Includes bibliographical references
Argument evaluation and fallacies for critical thinking / J. Anthony Blair -- The issue of terrorism in public debate in Russia / Vadim Golubev -- "Agree to disagree" as a cultural practice : examining the functionality of disagreement in debate / Steven Woods and Jianglong Wang -- The use of topoi in contemporary debate / Benjamin K. Sovacool -- A problematic politics : an analysis of "micro-political" arguments and their pitfalls / Keith J. West -- Teaching younger debaters in Hong Kong : a program overview / Sam Greenland -- The middle school public debate program : design and function / Kate Shuster -- "Let's talk" : a methodology for participatory community discourse / Korry Harvey and Steven Woods -- Thwarting civic skepticism : nontraditional pathways to promoting civic virtue / Candace Williams -- The role of debate activism for civil societies / Joseph P. Zompetti -- Combining parliament and public : the open parliamentary debate / Michael Hoppmann -- Public debates in Macedonia / Boyan Maricic -- Persuasion in the prison / Danielle Stevens -- Debating and creating our future : using debate pedagogy to support youth-driven urban change / Mackay Miller -- Introducing debate into the curriculum of Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer, Slovenia / Liana Miholič and Martina Domajnko -- Debating toward dialogue and educational transformation / Frank Duffin -- Debate and demagoguery : a civic education? / Aaron Fishbone -- Are we training better demagogues? / Liza-Marie Curteneau -- The dilemma of Dr. Dolittle's pushmi-pullyu : the juxtapositional tension between debate coaching duties and marriage and family commitments / Jack E. Rogers and Arthur Rennels