Frontiers of the 21st century
Subtitle: 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
By: edited by Alfred C. Snider.
Contributors: Snider, Alfred.
Publisher: International Debate Education Association
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781932716313
Subjects: Debates and debating -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers from the 2004 and 2005 IDEA conferences.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Argument evaluation and fallacies for critical thinking / J. Anthony Blair; title: The issue of terrorism in public debate in Russia / Vadim Golubev; title: "Agree to disagree" as a cultural practice : examining the functionality of disagreement in debate / Steven Woods and Jianglong Wang; title: The use of topoi in contemporary debate / Benjamin K. Sovacool; title: A problematic politics : an analysis of "micro-political" arguments and their pitfalls / Keith J. West; title: Teaching younger debaters in Hong Kong : a program overview / Sam Greenland; title: The middle school public debate program : design and function / Kate Shuster; title: "Let's talk" : a methodology for participatory community discourse / Korry Harvey and Steven Woods; title: Thwarting civic skepticism : nontraditional pathways to promoting civic virtue / Candace Williams; title: The role of debate activism for civil societies / Joseph P. Zompetti; title: Combining parliament and public : the open parliamentary debate / Michael Hoppmann; title: Public debates in Macedonia / Boyan Maricic; title: Persuasion in the prison / Danielle Stevens; title: Debating and creating our future : using debate pedagogy to support youth-driven urban change / Mackay Miller; title: Introducing debate into the curriculum of Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer, Slovenia / Liana Miholič and Martina Domajnko; title: Debating toward dialogue and educational transformation / Frank Duffin; title: Debate and demagoguery : a civic education? / Aaron Fishbone; title: Are we training better demagogues? / Liza-Marie Curteneau; title: 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.