Description
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.
About the Author
Ben Voth is associate professor of rhetoric and director of speech at Southern Methodist University.
Awards
Winner of Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award 2021.
Book Information
ISBN 9781793629371
Author Ben Voth
Format Hardback
Page Count 276
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 599g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 164mm * 26mm
